MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE (1819-1904)

Lot 431
23.01.2026 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 431 | MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE (1819-1904)
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$ 50 000 – 70 000
MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE (1819-1904)
Tropical Scene with Two Figures in a Rowboat
signed and dated 'MJ Heade 72' (lower right)
oil on canvas
10 ¼ x 14 in. (26 x 35.6 cm.)
Painted in 1872.




Provenance

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, by 1995.
Eaton Fine Art, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1997.



Literature

T.E. Stebbins, Jr. The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, Connecticut, 2000, pp. 256-57, no. 220, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Selected American Master Paintings, 1764-1964, 1995, n.p., no. 5, illustrated.
West Palm Beach, Florida, Eaton Fine Art, Martin Johnson Heade, A Survey: 1840-1900, 1996, pp. 30-31, illustrated (as Tropical Scene).
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