ID 1360520
Lot 384 | FRANK WESTON BENSON (1862-1951)
Estimate value
$ 12 000 – 18 000
Monadnock
signed 'Frank W Benson.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1890.
Provenance
The artist.
Private collection, Massachusetts, by descent from the above.
Estate of the above.
Skinner, Boston, Massachusetts, 7 February 2014, lot 508.
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2014.
Literature
F.A. Bedford, S.C. Faxon, B.W. Chambers, Frank W. Benson: A Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1989, pp. 138, 139, fig. 130, illustrated.
Exhibited
Boston, Massachusetts, Chase's Gallery, Exhibition of Pictures by Frank W. Benson and Edmund C. Tarbell, March 2-14, 1891, no. 6 (as Landscape (Dublin)).
Further details
We are grateful to Benson scholar Faith Andrews Bedford, author of the biography Frank W. Benson: American Impressionist, The Sporting Art of Frank Benson, and Impressionist Summers: Frank W. Benson's North Haven, for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
| Artist: | Frank Benson (1862 - 1951) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Frank Benson (1862 - 1951) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| 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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