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Paul Cadmus (1904-1999)
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Paul Cadmus (1904-1999)

The House That Jack Built

Fermé22 May 2014

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USD 149,000

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Paul Cadmus (1904-1999)
The House That Jack Built
signed 'Cadmus', dated '1987' and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
tempera on gessoed panel
33 x 33 in. (83.8 x 83.8 cm.)

The artist.
Midtown Payson Galleries, Inc., Hobe Sound, Florida.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Note du spécialiste

"Cadmus truly felt that much of what was happening in the art world of the postwar era was worthy of the term [evil], and seems to have equated the madness of the art world with the madness of the nuclear era in the painting The House That Jack Built. In Cadmus's opinion, not only had a generation of skilled artists been rejected by the new critical establishment but also, and more importantly, an entire humanist tradition in the visual arts was being discarded." (J. Spring, Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude, New York, 2002, p. 41)