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ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)

Lot 310
23.01.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 310 | ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
Estimate value
$ 800 000 – 1 200 000
ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
A Rest on the Ride
signed with conjoined initials 'ABierstadt' (lower left)
oil on canvas
30 x 50 in. (76.2 x 127 cm.)
Painted circa 1863-64.




Provenance

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, by 1967.
Cortez F. Enloe, Jr., Annapolis, Maryland, acquired from the above, 1968.
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Private collection, Dallas, Texas.
Gerald Peters, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Maxwell Galleries Ltd., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.



Literature

The Kennedy Quarterly, vol. VII, no. 2, June 1967, pp. 90-91, no. 105, illustrated.
G. Hendricks, Albert Bierstadt: Painter of the American West, New York, 1973, p. 122, fig. 91, illustrated.
W.C. Miesse, Mount Shasta: An Annotated Bibliography, Weed, California, 1993, p. 213n963.
K. Bott, Deutsche Künstler in Amerika, 1813-1913, Weimar, Germany, 1996, p. 18.



Exhibited

Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art; 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 Fine Arts, Albert Bierstadt, January 27, 1972-January 3, 1973, pp. 19-20, no. 34, illustrated.
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Collects American Paintings: Colonial to Early Modern, September 26-November 14, 1982, pp. 12, 42-43, no. 9, pl. V, illustrated.
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Visions of the West, September 28-November 30, 1986, pp. 6, 55.
Los Angeles, California, Gene Autry Western Heritage Museum, The West Explored: The Gerald Peters Collection of Western American Art, November 1988, pp. 41, 45, 84, pl. 21, illustrated.
New York, Gerald Peters Gallery, Bierstadt’s West, September 11-October 24, 1997, n.p., pl. 6, illustrated.



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.
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