- 77
Charles Demuth 1883-1935
Description
- Charles Demuth
- Erdgeist (Wedekind)
- pencil and watercolor on paper
- Sight: 8 3/4 by 11 3/4 in.
- 22.2 by 29.8 cm
- Executed in 1918
Provenance
Collection of Edith G. Halpert (Sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, March 15, 1973, lot 115, illustrated in color)
Exhibited
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Summer Exhibition, 1957
Houston, Detering Gallery, 1958
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Charles Demuth Exhibition, May 1958, no. 11
Pomona California, Pomona College, October, 1958
Cincinnati Art Museum, October, 1961
Iowa City, State University of Iowa, May 1962
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Gallery Selection, November 1962
Washington, D. C. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Roots of Abstract Art, December 1965
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial Museum, Charles Demuth Exhibition, August, 1966
San Francisco Museum of Art, Master Drawings, April 20-May 29, 1966
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum Seattle Museum of Art, Eight American Masters of Watercolor, April 23-June 16, 1968, no. 74
Catalogue Note
This drawing is based on a scene from the play Erdgeist (1895) by Frank Wedekind. A pencil sketch of a male nude is on the reverse.