Lot 61
  • 61

Childe Hassam

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Childe Hassam
  • Low Tide, Isles of Shoals
  • signed Childe Hassam and dated 1903 (lower left)
  • watercolor on board
  • 19 5/8 by 13 3/4 inches
  • (39.8 by 34.9 cm)

Provenance

The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (by bequest from the artist, 1935)
Mr. and Mrs. J. William Middendorf, Winthrop, Maine, 1964
Mr. Robert F. Woolworth, New York, 1964-1968
Mr. Marvin Pesses, Pepper Pike, Ohio, 1968-1972
Kennedy Galleries, New York, 1972-1975
Purchased from the above by the present owner, 1975

Exhibited

New York, Childe Hassam Watercolors, December 8-27, 1952, no. 10 (as Low Tide)
East Hampton, New York, Water Color Show:  A Selection of American Water Color Artists, June 23-July 11, 1956
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Important American Art, 1903-1972, November 15-22, no. 3, illustrated

Condition

in generally good condition; slight soiling to surface: a few scattered light stains
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