ADOLPHE MONTICELLI (MARSEILLE, 1824-1886)
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ID 1443238
Lot 78 | ADOLPHE MONTICELLI (MARSEILLE, 1824-1886)
Estimate value
£ 6 000 – 8 000
Fishermen lifting the nets before the storm
signed 'A Monticelli' (lower left)
oil on panel
17 x 25 in. (43 x 63.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1878.
Provenance
Sir Leicester Harmsworth, London.
Henry Golwynne, New York.
His estate sale; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 6 February 1957, lot 55.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, acquired at the above sale and given in 1966 to The Trustees of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1966.
Their sale; Christie's, New York, 19 November 1998, lot 158, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
S. Stammegna, Catalogue des oeuvres de Monticelli, Marseille, 1987, vol. II, no. 963, illustrated.
Exhibited
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Monticelli, His Contemporaries, His Influence, October 1978-September 1979, no 48, this exhibition then travelled to Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; and Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Vincent Van Gogh Museum.
Marseille, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orientalistes Provençaux, October-December 1982, no 216.
Marseille, Centre de la Vieille Charité, Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886), October 1986-January 1987.
| Artist: | Adolphe Monticelli (1824 - 1886) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Adolphe Monticelli (1824 - 1886) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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