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FREDERICK CARL FRIESEKE (1874-1939)

Lot 420
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Lot 420 | FREDERICK CARL FRIESEKE (1874-1939)
Estimate value
$ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
FREDERICK CARL FRIESEKE (1874-1939)
White Lilies
signed 'F.C. Frieseke.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
29 x 36 ½ in. (73.7 x 92.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1911




Provenance

Macbeth Gallery, New York (1913).
Ferargil Gallery, New York; sale, Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1998, lot 10.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.



Literature

V. Pica, "Artisti Contemporanei: Frederick Carl Frieseke" in Emporium, November 1913, vol. XXXVIII, no. 227, p. 326 (titled I Gigli).
Academy Notes, January-October 1918, vol. XIII, p. 20 (illustrated).



Exhibited

(possibly) Paris, Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, April 1912, no. 546 (titled Fleurs de lis).
New York, Macbeth Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by Frederick Carl Frieseke, February-March 1913, no. 4.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings by Frederick C. Frieseke, April 1913, no. 2.
Boston, St. Botolph Club, Paintings by F.C. Frieseke and Sculpture by F.W. Allen, April 1916, no. 2.
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by James R. Hopkins, Gardner Symons and Frederick Carl Frieseke, December 1917, no. 26.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 114th Annual Exhibition, February-March 1919, no. 235.
New York, Macbeth Gallery, Paintings by Frederick C. Frieseke and Hayley Lever, April-May 1922, no. 7.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Sargent, Chase, Cassatt: Master Paintings from a Private Collection, July-September 2006.
Montclair Art Museum, A Shared Love: Treasures of American Painting (1878-1919) from the Carol and Terry Wall Collection, May 2024-February 2025.



Further Details

This work is included in the draft Frieseke catalogue raisonné, compiled by Nicholas Kilmer, the artist's grandson, with the support of the Hollis Taggart Galleries. That draft is now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art.
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