Jun 04, 2015 - Sale 2386

Sale 2386 - Lot 246

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
EGBERT CADMUS
Three drawings of female nudes.

Each charcoal on cream laid paper, circa 1890. One inscribed "my first life drawing" in pencil, lower left recto. Various sizes and conditions.

Ex-collection Paul Cadmus; Jon F. Anderson and Philis Raskind-Anderson, Connecticut.

Early nude studies of Maria Latasa, Egbert's wife and mother of Paul Cadmus. Latasa was also a children's books illustrator and is featured in other portraits by Egbert Cadmus in his auction (see lots 247 and 250).