Lot 13
Charles Demuth(1883-1935)Three Red Apples: A Double-Sided Work 10 x 14in
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Charles Demuth (1883-1935)
Three Red Apples: A Double-Sided Work
signed 'C. Demuth' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
10 x 14in
Executed circa 1929.
signed 'C. Demuth' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
10 x 14in
Executed circa 1929.
Footnotes
Provenance
The artist.
Robert Locher, New York and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1935, acquired from the above.
Richard C. Weyand, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1956.
Sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Watercolors and Paintings by Charles Demuth, Part Two of the Collection Belonging to the Late Richard W.C. Weyland, February 5, 1958, no. 17.
Mrs. James Cox Brady, Far Hills, New Jersey, acquired from the above.
Henry M. Libhart.
Robert Nation, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, 1973, acquired from the above.
Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, 1991.
Sale, Sotheby's, New York, September 14, 1995, lot 192.
Private collection, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, acquired from the above.
Private collection, New York.
Exhibited
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, The Demuth Foundation, Tenth Anniversary Celebration, December 1992.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cézanne and Beyond, February 26-May 17, 2009, pp. 291-92, 301, 537, pl. 102, illustrated (as Three Red Apples).
Literature
R.C. Weyand, Scrapbooks, no. 229A and 229B.
E. Farnham, Charles Demuth: His Life, Psychology and Works, vol. II, Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1959, pp. 627-28, nos. 542, 544.