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An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate

Childe Hassam

View of Broadway and Fifth Avenue

Auction Closed

May 16, 12:52 AM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate


Childe Hassam

1859 – 1935


View of Broadway and Fifth Avenue

signed Childe Hassam and dated 1890 / N.Y. (lower left)

oil on canvas

13 ⅞ by 10 ¾ in.

35.1 by 27.3 cm.

Executed in 1890.


This painting will be included in Stuart Feld’s and Kathleen Burnside’s forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work.

(possibly) Mrs. Herman Duryea, New York (acquired in Paris circa 1920)

Mrs. Robert Heighe, Belair, Maryland (acquired by descent from the above)

Private Collection, Baltimore (acquired by descent from the above in 1953)

Sotheby's, New York, 1 December 1988, lot 176 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Ulrich W. Hiesinger, Childe Hassam: American Impressionist, New York, 1994, fig. 68, p. 69, illustrated in color

Orlando Museum of Art, Hidden Treasures: American Paintings from Florida Private Collections, 1992, no. 22

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Childe Hassam: American Impressionist, 2004, no. 136, fig. 93, pp. 98-99, illustrated in color