Details
CHARLES DEMUTH (1883-1935)
Apples and Pears
signed and dated 'C Demuth 1933' (lower center)
watercolor and pencil on paper
10 x 13 3/4 in. (25.4 x 34.9 cm.)
Executed in 1933.
Provenance
The artist.
Robert Locher, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, friend of the above, bequest from the above, 1935.
Samuel Wagstaff, Jr., New York, acquired from the above, 1948.
Davis Galleries, New York.
Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin, New York, acquired from the above, 1963.
Sotheby’s, New York, 22 May 1996, lot 131, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
E. Farnham, Charles Demuth His Life, Psychology and Works, vol. 2, Ph.D dissertation, Ohio State University, 1959, p. 620, no. 523.
Exhibited
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial Museum, Charles Demuth of Lancaster, September 24-November 6, 1966, n.p., no. 126.
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, The Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin Collection, May 4-June 18, 1967, pp. 29, 87, no. 39, illustrated.
Details
CHARLES DEMUTH (1883-1935)
Apples and Pears
signed and dated 'C Demuth 1933' (lower center)
watercolor and pencil on paper
10 x 13 3/4 in. (25.4 x 34.9 cm.)
Executed in 1933.
Provenance
The artist.
Robert Locher, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, friend of the above, bequest from the above, 1935.
Samuel Wagstaff, Jr., New York, acquired from the above, 1948.
Davis Galleries, New York.
Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin, New York, acquired from the above, 1963.
Sotheby’s, New York, 22 May 1996, lot 131, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
E. Farnham, Charles Demuth His Life, Psychology and Works, vol. 2, Ph.D dissertation, Ohio State University, 1959, p. 620, no. 523.
Exhibited
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial Museum, Charles Demuth of Lancaster, September 24-November 6, 1966, n.p., no. 126.
New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, The Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin Collection, May 4-June 18, 1967, pp. 29, 87, no. 39, illustrated.
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