Jun 13, 2019 - Sale 2513

Sale 2513 - Lot 297

Unsold
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
PAUL CADMUS
Study for Bar Italia #9.

Pencil on imitation Japan paper, circa 1953-55. 200x220 mm; 7 3/4x8 1/2 inches. Signed and titled in pencil, upper left recto.

Acquired Midtown Galleries, New York, with the label; private collection, New Jersey.

This is a preparatory study for the figure in the lower left of Cadmus' tempera painting, Bar Italia, 1953-55, now in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.