ID 1401115
Lot 41 | CHARLES DEMUTH (1883-1935)
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
Red and Yellow Gladioli
signed and dated 'C. Demuth/aug. 1928-' (in the leaf at lower center)
watercolor and pencil on paper
20 x 14 in. (50.8 x 35.6 cm.)
Executed in 1928.
Provenance
The artist.
Robert Locher, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, friend of the above, bequest from the above, 1935.
Durlacher Bros., New York, 1949.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1955.
Literature
R.C. Weyand, Scrapbooks, no. 21.
E. Farnham, Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works, vol. II, Ph.D dissertation, Ohio State University, 1959, p. 618, no. 517.
W. Born, Still Life Painting in America, New York, 1973, p. 182, pl. 126, illustrated.
A.L. Eiseman, Charles Demuth, New York, 1982, pp. 21, 78-79, pl. 38, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Charles Demuth Memorial Exhibition, December 15, 1937-January 16, 1938, no. 80.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Marin and Demuth: Wizards of Watercolor, February 14-March 5, 1939.
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Fackenthal Library of Franklin & Marshall College, Memorial Exhibition: Watercolors by Charles Demuth (1883-1935), January 20-26, 1941, no. 6.
Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, A History of American Watercolor Painting, 1946.
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, American Paintings and Drawings from Michigan Collections, April 10-May 6, 1962, p. 10, no. 140.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Reflections of Nature: Flowers in American Art, March 1-May 20, 1984, pp. 73, 74, 197, fig. 52, illustrated.
| Artist: | Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor on paper |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Charles Demuth (1883 - 1935) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor on paper |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
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