Jun 04, 2015 - Sale 2386

Sale 2386 - Lot 255

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
PAUL CADMUS
Two Studies of Jared French (Z 28).

Pen and black ink and pencil on paper, circa 1935. 230x287 mm; 9x11 1/4 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto.

Ex-collection the artist's estate; Jon F. Anderson and Philis Raskind-Anderson, Connecticut.

Exhibited "The Reflective Image: American Drawings and Watercolors 1910-1960," D.C. Moore Gallery, January 7-30 1999, with the labels on the frame back.

Cadmus and French became friends and lovers in New York and traveled through Europe from 1931 to 1933. They settled for awhile in a small fishing village on the island of Mallora before returning to New York.