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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
Lot 108¤

Paul Cadmus
(1904-1999)
Male Nude (NM 118) image, 19 x 10 in. (48.3 x 25.4 cm.); sheet, 20 1/8 x 12 1/4 in. (51.1 x 31.1 cm.)

18 November 2021, 14:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$44,062.50 inc. premium

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Paul Cadmus (1904-1999)

Male Nude (NM 118)
signed and inscribed 'Cadmus / NM 118' (lower right)
conté crayon on olive paper
image, 19 x 10 in. (48.3 x 25.4 cm.); sheet, 20 1/8 x 12 1/4 in. (51.1 x 31.1 cm.)

Footnotes

Provenance
Midtown Galleries, New York.
Private collection, Sacramento, California.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 2015.

The model in the present work has been identified as Jon (Farquhar) Anderson (1937-2018), a former cabaret star. Cadmus and Anderson met and began a relationship in 1965 that lasted until Cadmus' death in 1999. Throughout their 35 year long relationship, Anderson served as Cadmus' model and muse. Cadmus uses the inscription 'NM' in his signature to stand for 'Nantucket Man' and is a reference to Nantucket, Massachusetts where the couple met.

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