Lot 50
  • 50

Charles Demuth

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Charles Demuth
  • Roses
  • signed C. Demuth and dated 1926 (center left)
  • watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 17 7/8 by 11 7/8 inches
  • (45.4 by 30.2 cm)

Provenance

C.W. Kraushaar Galleries, New York
George Dyer, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1934
Private collection (by descent; sold: Sotheby's, New York, December 1, 1988, lot 240, illustrated)
A. Alfred Taubman, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (acquired at the above sale)

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Demuth Memorial Exhibition, December 1937-January 1938, no. 121 (as Roses and Daisies)

Literature

Richard C. Weyand scrapbooks, no. W432
Emily Edna Farnham, Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works, Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1959, vol. II, no. 495, p. 608