OSCAR FLORIANUS BLUEMNER (1867-1938)

Lot 13
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ID 931396
Lot 13 | OSCAR FLORIANUS BLUEMNER (1867-1938)
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$ 150 000 – 250 000
OSCAR FLORIANUS BLUEMNER (1867-1938)

Approach of Night (Hoboken)

signed with conjoined initials 'OBluemner' (lower left)

watercolor and gouache on paperboard

15 1/2 x 20 in. (39.4 x 50.8 cm.)

Executed in 1914.





Provenance

James Graham & Sons, New York.

Margaret and Raymond Horowitz, New York, acquired from the above.

Parke-Bernet, New York, 29 January 1964, lot 77, sold by the above.

Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin, New York, acquired from the above.

Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 1996, lot 122, sold by the above.

Acquired by the present owner from the above.



Literature

G. Glueck, "An Intense Architect-Turned Artist Obsessed with Blazing Color," The New York Times, October 7, 2005.



Exhibited

Minneapolis, Minnesota, University of Minnesota, University Gallery, Oscar Bluemner Retrospective Exhibition, March 1939, n.p., no. 42.

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Gallery, The Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin Collection, May 4-June 18, 1967, p. 28, no. 21, illustrated.

Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Trenton, New Jersey, New Jersey State Museum, Oscar Bluemner: Landscapes of Sorrow and Joy, December 10, 1988-September 3, 1989, p. 40, no. 47, illustrated.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Oscar Bluemner: A Passion for Color, October 7, 2005-February 12, 2006, pp. 42, 47, 225, fig. 35, illustrated.
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