CHARLES DEMUTH: I Saw the Figure Five in Gold

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A poetic inspiration behind the enigmatic painting of a fiery number

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET)
Gallery 909

"I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold"

by Charles Demuth