Live Auction 16721The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: Fine Art, Day Sale
Charles Demuth (1883-1935)
Lot 561 The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller

Charles Demuth (1883-1935)

Flowers: A Double-Sided Work

Closed10 May 2018

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Charles Demuth (1883-1935)
Flowers: A Double-Sided Work
signed and dated 'C. Demuth./1916.' (upper left)
watercolor on paper
13 ¾ x 9 7/8 in. (34.9 x 25.1 cm.)
Executed in 1916.

(Possibly) Hill-Tollerton Galleries, San Francisco, California.
Alice Corbin Henderson, Santa Fe, New Mexico, (possibly) acquired from the above.
Alice Henderson Rossin, Santa Fe, New Mexico, daughter of the above, by descent from the above, 1949.
Peter H. Davidson & Co., Inc., New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1973.

Specialist note

The reverse of the present work retains a watercolor seascape, likely executed between 1912 and 1915. The coastal scene depicts either Étretat, France, where Charles Demuth sojourned in the summer of 1913, or the Jersey shore.