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The Collection of John Sacret Young

Charles Demuth

Trees

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Collection of John Sacret Young

Charles Demuth

1883 - 1935


Trees

watercolor and pencil on paper

13 ¾ by 11 ¾ in.

34.9 by 29.8 cm.

Executed circa 1918-20.

Robert E. Locher, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (acquired in 1935)

Richard C. Weyand, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (acquired as a gift from the above)

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 5 February 1958, lot 72 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Edith Halpert, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 15 March 1973, lot 106 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Harry Spiro, New York

Jean-Paul Floru, New York

Private Collection, California

Christie's, New York, 19 May 2005, lot 204

John Sacret Young, Los Angeles (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

New York, The Downtown Gallery, Charles Demuth, May 1958, no. 29, n.p.

Maine, Museum of Art of Ogunquit, Watercolors and Oils by Charles Demuth, 1959, no. 13, n.p. 

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, The Precisionist View in American Art, 1960, p. 55

Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Edith Gregor Halpert Collection, 1962, n.p.

Columbia, South Carolina Museum of Art, Ascendancy of American Painting, 1963, p. 11

Storrs, University of Connecticut, The William Benton Museum of Art, Edith Halpert and The Downtown Gallery, 1968, no. 10, n.p., illustrated

New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Pioneers of American Abstraction: Bluemner, Davis, Demuth, Dove, Marin, O'Keeffe, Sheeler, Stella, Weber, 1973, no. 38, n.p., illustrated in color

Buffalo, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Land, Sea, and Light: The John Sacret Young Collection, 2023

Emily Farnham, Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works, unpublished dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1959, no. 713, p. 684