HENRY OSSAWA TANNER (1859-1937)

Lot 422
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Lot 422 | HENRY OSSAWA TANNER (1859-1937)
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$ 200 000 – 300 000
HENRY OSSAWA TANNER (1859-1937)
Home of Jeanne D'Arc
signed 'H.O. Tanner' (lower right)—dated and inscribed 'Domremy/1918' (lower left)
oil on panel
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1918.




Provenance

The artist.
Jessie Macauley Olsen Tanner, Paris, wife of the above.
Private collection, by descent from the above.
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1998.



Literature

Who's Who in Art, vol. XX, 1923, p. 83.
M.M. Mathews, Henry Ossawa Tanner: American Artist, Chicago, Illinois, 1969, p. 180.
H. Taha, Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas, New York, 1998, p. 4, illustrated.
D.F. Mosby, D. Sewell, R. Alexander-Minter, Henry Ossawa Tanner, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1991, p. 49.
N.F. Woods, Jr., Henry Ossawa Tanner: Art, Faith, Race, and Legacy, New York, 2018, p. 213.



Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Robert C. Vose Galleries, January 1921.
Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, January 1922.
(Probably) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Institute, Paintings by Hayley Lever and H.O. Tanner, 1923.
Concord, Massachusetts, Concord Art Centre, Concord Art Association, Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 4-July 1, 1924, p. 26, no. 44 (as House of Joan of Arc).
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum; Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, January 28, 2012-January 6, 2013, pp. 39-40, 255, 288, pl. 88, illustrated (as House of Joan of Arc (Domrémy)).
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