ID 1119036
Lot 201 | ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
Sunset on the Prairies
signed with conjoined initials 'AB' (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on paperboard
4 ¼ x 7 ½ in. (10.8 x 19.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1861.
Provenance
The artist.
Mrs. Charles Butler, Scarsdale, New York, acquired from the above.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 19 June 1981, lot 72.
Alexander Gallery, New York, acquired from the above.
David DeFrancesca, Laguna, California.
Overland Trail Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Jim Fowler's Period Gallery West, Scottsdale, Arizona.
John F. Eulich, Dallas, Texas, acquired from the above, 1984.
Sotheby's, New York, 3 December 1998, lot 173, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
J.S. Czestochowski, Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of the Sublime, exhibition catalogue, Memphis, Tennessee, 2004, pp. 14-15, fig. 2, illustrated.
Exhibited
(Possibly) Paris, France, Académie des Beaux-Arts, 1875, p. 129.
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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