CHARLES DEMUTH (1883-1935)

Lot 11
16.04.2026 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1561416
Lot 11 | CHARLES DEMUTH (1883-1935)
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$ 120 000 – 180 000
CHARLES DEMUTH (1883-1935)
Blue Plums
signed and dated 'C. Demuth 1924' (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.7 cm.)
Executed in 1924.




Provenance

Downtown Gallery, New York.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, New York, acquired from the above, 1931.
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, New York, by descent from the above.
By descent to the late owner from the above.



Literature

Parnassus, vol. V, no. 3, April 1935, p. 4, illustrated.
E. Farnham, Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works, vol. II, Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1959, p. 587, no. 445.



Exhibited

Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, on loan, n.d.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Fruit and Flower Paintings, March 13-April 7, 1933, p. 2.
San Francisco, California, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Art: An Exhibition from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, April 17-November 7, 1976, pp. 224-25, no. 97, illustrated.
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