FRANCIS AUGUSTUS SILVA (1835-1886)
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ID 1540451
Lot 430 | FRANCIS AUGUSTUS SILVA (1835-1886)
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
Coastal Sunset
signed and dated 'F.A. Silva. 74' (lower right)
oil on canvas
14 x 26 in. (35.6 x 66 cm.)
Painted in 1874.
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 25 May 1988, lot 21.
Alexander Gallery, New York.
Sotheby's, New York, 30 November 1989, lot 17.
(Probably) Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
D.C. Miller, ed., American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature, New Haven, Connecticut, 1993, pp. 186-87, fig. 9.2, illustrated (as Seascape at Sunset).
Exhibited
M.D. Mitchell, J. Wilmerding, Francis A. Silva (1835-1886): In His Own Light, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2002, pp. 86, 129, pl. 20, illustrated.
| Artist: | Francis Augustus Silva (1835 - 1886) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Marine art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Francis Augustus Silva (1835 - 1886) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Marine art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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