Jun 04, 2015 - Sale 2386

Sale 2386 - Lot 285

Price Realized: $ 5,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
JARED FRENCH
Jack Dunphy.

Pencil and orange ink on wove paper, 1951. 305x235 mm; 12x9 1/4 inches. Signed, titled, dated and annotated in pencil, lower right recto.

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

Exhibited D.C. Moore Gallery, New York with the label on the frame back.

Dunphy (1914-1992) was a dancer for the George Balanchine Dance Company, as well as a novelist and a playwright. He was the long-term partner of writer Truman Capote from 1958 until Capote's death in 1984.