ID 1360563
Lot 359 | SANFORD ROBINSON GIFFORD (1823-1880)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
Venice (near the Arsenal)
signed with initials, dated and inscribed 'Venice July 6 1869 SRG-' (lower left)
oil on canvas
4 ¾ x 12 in. (12.1 x 30.5 cm.)
Painted in 1869.
Provenance
The artist.
(Possibly) Estate of the above.
(Possibly) Sale: Thos. E. Kirby & Co., New York, April 1881, lot 116, sold by the above.
Private collection, Ohio, by 1986.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
(Possibly) Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A., New York, 1881, p. 37, no. 534 (as A Sketch near the Arsenal at Venice).
Exhibited
(Possibly) New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Collection of Paintings in the West and East Galleries, October 1880-May 1881, no. 159 (as Near the Arsenal, Venice, a Study).
Further details
A letter from the recognized expert on the artist, Dr. Ila Weiss, accompanies this lot.
| Artist: | Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823 - 1880) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823 - 1880) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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