ID 1536629
Lot 5 | ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
Estimate value
$ 1 200 000 – 1 800 000
Mirror Lake (Yosemite Valley, Sunset)
signed with conjoined initials 'AB' (lower left)
oil on gessoed board
13 ½ x 18 ½ in. (34.3 x 47 cm.)
Painted circa 1868.
Provenance
F.O. Day, Saint Louis, Missouri, by 1868.
Private collection, St. Louis, Missouri.
Hindman, Chicago, Illinois, 23 May 1994, lot 182, sold by the above.
Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1994.
Literature
"Fine Art," The St. Louis Republic, September 27, 1868, p. 1.
Exhibited
St. Louis, Missouri, Pettes & Leathe's, 1868.
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 panel |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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