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Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) Study for David and Goliath image 1
Paul Cadmus (1904-1999) Study for David and Goliath image 2
Lot 156

Paul Cadmus
(1904-1999)
Study for David and Goliath

26 September – 7 October 2025, 12:00 EDT
Skinner Marlborough, Massachusetts

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Paul Cadmus (1904-1999)

Study for David and Goliath
signed 'Cadmus' (lower right)
crayon on green paper
sheet size 12 1/2 x 13 3/8 in. (31.7 x 34.0 cm)
Executed circa 1971.

Footnotes

Provenance
The collection of Paul Cadmus.
The estate of Jon F. Anderson.
Lark Mason Associates presented on iGavel Auctions, New York, Paul Cadmus and His Circle: Property from the Estate of Jon F. Anderson, April 28-May 19, 2020, lot 5719054.
A private collection (acquired from the previous).

N.B.
Jon F. Anderson, a previous owner of the current work, was Paul Cadmus's favorite model and recurs throughout his oeuvre. The present sketch is a preparatory study for Cadmus's 1971 David and Goliath, in which Anderson models as David and Cadmus as the decapitated Goliath. The painting was inspired by Caravaggio's depiction of the subject. Cadmus produced several studies for the finished painting, each of which show David in various seated positions and angles of recline, and the present version relates most closely to the sketch held at the Morgan Library (2005.48).

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