Charles Demuth

Christopher Forbes, New York, 1987
James Maroney Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Charles Demuth, October 14, 1987 - January 17, 1988

Arts Magazine, November 1987
DU Magazine, February 1988
Interview Magazine, April 1988
Jonathan Weinberg, Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the First American Avant-Garde, New Haven, Connecticut, 1995, no. 43, p. 103, illustrated
Jonathan Weinberg, Male Desire: the Homoerotic in American Art, New York, 2005, p. 46, illustrated

In good condition, generally; uniform fading in empty spaces (at left and along lower edge); a soft diagonal crease at lower right corner, about 2 in. long and another smaller crease at upper left corner; a small tear (1/4 in.) at lower left corner; sheet is hinged to backing with pieces of white tape at each of the 4 corners.
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Born into a wealthy family in Milwaukee, Stanley J. Seeger (1930-2011) became one of the world’s most prolific and private collectors, acquiring magnificent works in numerous fields from paintings by Pablo Picasso, Jasper Johns and Francis Bacon, to books by Joseph Conrad and Orson Welles’ personal manuscript of the screenplay for Citizen Kane.  Beginning with the spectacular sale of his 88 Picasso works in 1992, Sotheby’s has had the privilege of offering most of the collection in a series of remarkably successful sales in New York, London and Milan over the last two decades, most recently, 1000 Ways of Seeing: The Private Collection of the late Stanley J. Seeger, held on 5 and 6 March 2014.