ID 838964
Lot 47 | MAXFIELD PARRISH (1870-1966)
Estimate value
$ 2 000 000 – 3 000 000
Hilltop
signed and dated 'Copyright 1926/Maxfield Parrish' (lower left)
oil on panel
35 3/4 x 22 1/4 in. (91 x 56.5 cm.)
Painted in 1926
Provenance
Private collection, Massachusetts; Estate sale, Christie’s, New York, 2 December 1988, lot 178.
American Illustrators Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1997.
Literature
Reinthal and Newman, The House of Art print, published circa 1926-1927.
Thomas D. Murphy Company calendar, published 1942.
C. Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish, New York, 1973, pp. 138-139, 144-145 and 215, no. 722 (illustrated, p. 139, fig. 91).
A. Gilbert, Maxfield Parrish: The Masterworks, Berkeley, 1992, pp. 154 and 157 (illustrated in color, fig. 7.7).
L.S. Cutler, J. Goffman and American Illustrators Gallery, Maxfield Parrish, New York, 1993, pp. 2, 4 and 8 (illustrated in color on the frontispiece, p. 2).
L.S. Cutler and J.G. Cutler, Maxfield Parrish: A Retrospective, San Francisco, 1995, p. 127 (illustrated in color).
A.M. Gilbert, Parrish and Photography, Plainfield, 1998, p. 29.
L.S. Cutler and Judy A.G. Cutler, Maxfield Parrish, San Diego, 2001, pp. 118-119 (illustrated in color, p. 118).
L.S. Cutler, J.G. Cutler and the National Museum of American Illustration, Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists, Edison, 2004, p. 262 (illustrated in color).
A.G. Smith, Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe, Washington, D.C., 2005, p. 93.
Exhibited
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Osaka, The Museum of Art, Kintetsu; Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art and Stockbridge, Norman Rockwell Museum, Maxfield Parrish: A Retrospective, April-December 1995, pp. 50, 125, 166-167 and 180, no. 72 (illustrated in color, p. 125).
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| Artist: | Maxfield Parrish (1870 - 1966) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Category: | Illustrations |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Maxfield Parrish (1870 - 1966) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Category: | Illustrations |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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