ID 1119094
Lot 231 | ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 70 000
Italian Valley
signed with conjoined initials and dated 'ABierstadt./1860' (lower right)
oil on canvas
22 x 36 in. (55.9 x 91.4 cm.)
Painted in 1860.
Provenance
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, by 1948.
Private collection, by 1966.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, circa 1970.
Literature
M.A. Erhardt, E. Broun, The Norma Lee and Martin Funger Art Collection, Lunenberg, Vermont, 1999, pp. 12-13, frontispiece illustration (as Italian Landscape)
Exhibited
Boston, Massachusetts, Vose Galleries, American Landscape Paintings and Figure Paintings from 1800 to 1890, 1948, n.p., no. 27.
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; New Bedford, Massachusetts, The Whaling Museum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Albert Bierstadt, January 27, 1972-January 3, 1973, no. 25.
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 on canvas |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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