Lot 39
  • 39

George A. Beigel 1820-1897

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • George A. Beigel
  • Field Flowers
  • signed G. Beigel and dated 1855 (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 24 by 20 inches
  • (61 by 50.8 cm)

Provenance

Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1953
Paul Magriel, New York, 1954 (acquired from the above)
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Rosedown Plantation and Historic Gardens, St. Francisville, Louisiana, 1962 (sold: Christie's, New York, November 30, 1994, lot 12, illustrated, as by John Beigel)
Masco Corporation, Taylor, Michigan (acquired at the above sale; sold: Sotheby's, New York, December 3, 1998, lot 68, illustrated, as by John Beigel)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibited

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Two Hundred Years of American Art, January-February 1954, no. 4, illustrated
New York, Wildenstein & Co., The Magic of Flowers in Painting: An Exhibition for the Benefit of the Lenox Hill Association, April-May 1954, no. 84
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, American Still Life Paintings from the Paul Magriel Collection, October-November 1957, no. 1, illustrated
New York, Kennedy Galleries, Important American Still Life and Portrait Paintings, December 1962, no. 174
Savannah, Georgia, SCAD Museum of Art, Nature's Banquet: 19th Century American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, January-March 2010
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Art of American Still Life: Audubon to Warhol, October 2015-January 2016, no. 56, p. 174, illustrated p. 175

Literature

Elizabeth McCausland, "American Still-Life Paintings in the Collection of Paul Magriel," The Magazine Antiques, April 1955, pp. 324-26, illustrated
Paul Magriel, "American Flower Paintings," The American Antiques Journal, December 1955, p. 8, illustrated
George C. Groce and David H. Wallace, The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America: 1564-1860, New Haven, Connecticut, 1957, p. 42
Rudy Wunderlich, "Important American Still Life Paintings," Kennedy Quarterly, December 1962, vol. 3, no. 174, pp. 110-11, illustrated
William H. Gerdts and Russell Burke, American Still-Life Painting, New York, 1971, p. 241 (as by John Beigel)