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MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE (1819-1904)

Lot 351
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Lot 351 | MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE (1819-1904)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE (1819-1904)
Thimble Islands near New Haven
signed and dated 'M.J. Heade/-75' (lower right)—indistinctly signed again and inscribed with title (on a label affixed to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
14 ¼ x 27 ¼ in. (36.2 x 69.2 cm.)
Painted in 1875.




Provenance

George P. Guerry, New York.
Private collection, New Jersey, acquired from the above, 1956.
Private collection, Winter Garden, Florida, gift from the above, 1990.
Christie's, New York, 25 March 2015, lot 85, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.



Literature

T.E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade, New Haven, Connecticut, 1975, p. 249, no. 189, illustrated.
C.L. Troyen, A Private Eye: Fifty Nineteenth-Century American Paintings, Drawings, & Watercolors from the Stebbins Collection, exhibition catalogue, Huntington, New York, 1977, p. 58n1.
T.E. Stebbins, Jr., Martin Johnson Heade, exhibition catalogue, Boston, Massachusetts, 1999, pp. 16-17, fig. 7, illustrated.
T.E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, Connecticut, 2000, p. 262, no. 242, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Seascape and the American Imagination, June 10-September 7, 1975, p. 51, no. 53.
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