Charles Demuth
Hibiscus
Auction Closed
April 20, 12:24 AM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Charles Demuth
1883 - 1935
Hibiscus
signed C. Demuth and dated - 33 (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1933.
The artist
Robert E. Locher, New York (acquired by bequest from the above in 1935)
Durlacher Brothers, New York
Mrs. N. Rand, San Francisco (acquired from the above in 1955)
James Maroney Inc., New York
Wolf Family Collection No. 0951 (acquired from the above on January 3, 1989)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Catalogue of the Thirty-First Annual Watercolor Exhibition and the Thirty-Second Annual Exhibition of Miniatures, 1933, no. 603 or 607, p. 46 (as Flowers)
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Art Alliance, John Marin & Charles Demuth: Wizards of Watercolor, 1939
New York, James Maroney Inc., A Small Group of Especially Fine American Works on Paper, 1984, no. 7, n.p., illustrated
Emily Farnham, Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works, vol. II, Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1959, no. 560, p. 636