Flowers: A Double-Sided Work

Details

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.

Provenance

(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.

Literature

J. Barnitz, et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Art of the Western Hemisphere, vol. II, New York, 1988, pp. 104-06, fig. a, illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Columbus, Ohio, Columbus Museum of Art; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Charles Demuth, October 15, 1987-October 7, 1988, p. 72, no. 8, illustrated (as Wildflowers).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, Part I: 1900-1950, April 23-September 5, 1999.

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Lot Essay

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.

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