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Charles Demuth

Bermuda: Stairway

1917
Watercolor and graphite on wove paper
35.7 × 25.4 cm (14.1 × 10 in)

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Demuth studied cubist theory in Paris and at the "Arensberg Salon" in New York, but he discovered his own idiom during a trip to Bermuda in 1916–17. Here, he analyzes a stairway from multiple angles and through several frames. An overall compositional unity emerges through the compression of space and intersection of planes.

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