Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

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Property from an Important American Collector

William Michael Harnett

Still Life

Session begins in

January 24, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Bid

18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important American Collector

William Michael Harnett

1848 - 1892


Still Life

signed Harnett and dated 1883 (lower right)

oil on panel 

6 ¼ by 8 ¼ in. 

15.9 by 21 cm. 

Executed in 1883.

Francis C. Sessions, Columbus (acquired directly from the artist)

Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts (acquired from the above)

Kennedy Galleries Inc., New York (acquired by 1974)

Acquired from the above in 1978 by the present owner

Alfred Frankenstein, After the Hunt: William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters, Berkeley, 1953, no. 85, p. 169-70

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum; The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, William M. Harnett, March 1992 - June 1993, no. 30, pp. 124 and 218, illustrated in color