Charles Demuth
Squash and Zinnias
Auction Closed
April 20, 07:56 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Charles Demuth
1883 - 1935
Squash and Zinnias
tempera on board
8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1928.
Makler Gallery, Philadelphia
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
The Downtown Gallery, New York
Edith G. Halpert, New York
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, March 14, 1973, lot 17 (consigned by the above)
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Gund, Princeton, New Jersey
James Maroney, New York
Sotheby's New York, December 4, 1986, lot 210 (consigned by the above)
Wolf Family Collection No. 873 (acquired from the above)
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Summer 1957, 1957
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Spring Show, 1958
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Charles Demuth: Gallery Collection, 1958, no. 18 (as Squash and Flowers)
Philadelphia, Makler Gallery & Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, William Penn Memorial Museum, Charles Demuth of Lancaster, 1966, no. 35
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Group Show with the George L.K. Morris Exhibition, 1967
New York, The Downtown Gallery, Group Show, 1968
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, William Penn Memorial Museum, 1968
Thomas E. Norton, ed., Homage to Charles Demuth: Still Life Painter of Lancaster, Ephrata, Pennsylvania, 1978, p. 42, illustrated
Charles Demuth is widely regarded as one of the most talented colorists in the history of American art. Nowhere is this more apparent than in his still life compositions. With a discerning eye and sharp attention to detail, Demuth faithfully depicts familiar objects with liveliness and modernity that are quintessential to him.
Squash and Zinnias was first owned by iconic American modernists Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe, who married in 1924. Executed in 1928, this work would have been one of the first that the married couple owned together.
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