Aug 17, 2023 - Sale 2644

Sale 2644 - Lot 170

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000

PAUL CADMUS (1904 - 1999)


Dancers Conversing #2.
Pen and ink and wash with pencil on heavy wove paper. 410x290 mm; 16 1/8x11 3/8 inches. Signed in ink, upper right recto and dated and inscribed "#2" in ink and pencil, verso. 1974.

Provenance: Midtown Galleries, New York, with the label; private collection, California.

Exhibited "Paul Cadmus: Yesterday & Today," number 87, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, September 12- October 25, 1981, with the label, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, November 11- December 20, 1981, with the label, Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, January 16- February 28, 1982, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, March 20- May 2, 1982, and Hudson Rover Museum, Yonkers, May 20- July 11, 1982, with the label.

Published Philip Eliasoph, Paul Cadmus: Yesterday & Today, Oxford, Ohio: Miami University Art Museum, 1981, page 107 (illustrated).