Lot 16
  • 16

Charles Demuth

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Charles Demuth
  • Peaches and Fig
  • watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 8 by 10 inches
  • (20.2 by 25.4 cm)
  • Executed circa 1922-23.

Provenance

Daniel Gallery, New York
Adolph Lewisohn, New York
Florence and Elizabeth Gilman
By descent in the Gilman family until 1977
Davis & Long Company, New York
Leeds Collection, Connecticut
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York (sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 30, 1989, lot 266)
Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York
Purchased from the above by the present owner, 1997

Exhibited

New York, Davis & Long Company, American-English Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, November 9 - December 3, 1977, no. 6, illustrated
New York, Sid Deutsch Gallery, Gertrude Stein: The American Connection, 1990, no. 17
New York, Zabriskie Gallery, Charlie Daniel and the Daniel Gallery: 1913 through 1932, December 1993 - February 1994, no. 30

Literature

Thomas E. Norton, Homage to Charles Demuth:  Still Life Painter of Lancaster, Ephrata, Pennsylvania, 1978, p. 13, illustrated
Charles Leclair, The Art of Watercolor:  Techniques and New Directions, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1985, pl. 3, illustrated

Condition

In good condition; minor soiling to surface of sheet, with a few scattered light stains and specks of foxing, edges under mat are slightly darker then rest of sheet; sheet is hinged to backing with two pieces of white paper linen at upper edge verso
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