Aug 19, 2021 - Sale 2578

Sale 2578 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 35,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000

PAUL CADMUS (1904-1999)


Male Nude (NM 155).
Prisma-color crayons on gray Strathmore toned with acrylic. 617x440 mm; 24 3/8x17 3/8 inches. Signed and inscribed "NM 155" in white crayon, lower left recto. 1979.

Exhibited "Paul Cadmus: Yesterday and Today," Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, September 12-October 25, 1981, with the label on the frame back, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, November 11-December 20, 1981, with the label on the frame back, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, March 20-May 2, 1981; "Paul Cadmus: The Male Nude 1950-1999," October 10-November 9, 2002, DC Moore Gallery, New York, with the label on the frame back.

Provenance: Midtown Galleries, New York, with the label on the frame back; with D.C. Moore Gallery, New York, with the label on the frame back; Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York.