ID 1360583
Lot 337 | HENRY F. FARNY (1847-1916)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
Nest of Rattlesnakes
signed and dated '·H·F Farny·/94' with artist's device (lower right)
gouache on paper laid down on canvas
15 x 28 in. (38.1 x 71.1 cm.)
Executed in 1894.
Provenance
Clossons Art Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Private collection, Kentucky, 1940.
Private collection, by descent from the above.
Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1996.
Literature
W. Reed, The Illustrator in America: 1860-2000, New York, 2001, p. 54, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Spanierman Gallery, LLC, Masterworks by Henry Farny, October 15-November 14, 1981, p. 8, no. 12, illustrated.
New York, Spanierman Gallery, LLC, American Works on Paper II, 1988, n.p., no. 21, illustrated.
New York, Spanierman Gallery, LLC, Art of the Old West, May 2-June 30, 1995.
| Artist: | Henry F. Farny (1847 - 1916) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Henry F. Farny (1847 - 1916) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| 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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