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CHARLES DEMUTH | THREE-MASTED SCHOONER

Lot Closed

July 26, 04:05 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

CHARLES DEMUTH

1883 - 1935

THREE-MASTED SCHOONER


charcoal, wash and pencil on paper

7 ¾ x 10 inches (19.7 x 25.4 cm)

Executed circa 1916-17.


The artist

Mrs. Augusta W. Demuth, by descent

Robert Locher, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1943 (by descent)

Richard C. Weyand, 1956 (by descent; sold: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, October 1958, lot 85B)

Mr. & Mrs. Lester L. Doniger, Great Neck, New York (acquired at the above sale) 

Brand Galleries, Ltd., San Francisco, California (acquired from the above)

Dr. Alvord L. Eisman, San Francisco, California, by 1980

Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York

Private collection, Dallas, Texas, 1990 (acquired from the above)

Private collection, New York, by 2003

Emily Edna Farnham, Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works, Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1959, vol. II, no. 228, p. 739 (as Sketch: Three-Masted Schooner)