ID 1119011
Lot 214 | ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
Estimate value
$ 500 000 – 700 000
South Dome, Yosemite Valley, California
signed with conjoined initials ‘ABierstadt’ (lower right)—inscribed with title and ‘Rosalie Bierstadt’ and dated ‘May 1867’ (on the reverse prior to lining)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
26 x 19 in. (66 x 48.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1863-67.
Provenance
The artist.
Rosalie Bierstadt, wife of the above, gift from the above, 1867.
The Manoogian Collection, Taylor, Michigan, by 1990.
Private collection, Carmel, California.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, circa 1991.
Literature
N.K. Anderson, L.S. Ferber, Albert Bierstadt: Art and Enterprise, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1990, p. 91, fig. 59, illustrated (as Study for “The Domes of Yosemite”).
L. Mayers, G. Myers, “Bierstadt and Other 19th-Century American Painters in Context,” Journal of the American Institute for Conservation, vol. 38, no. 1, Spring 1999, pp. 60-61.
Further Details
We would like to thank Melissa Webster Speidel, President of the Bierstadt Foundation and Director of the Albert Bierstadt catalogue raisonné project, for her assistance in the cataloguing of this lot. This work is included in the database being compiled for her forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
| Artist: | Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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