American Art
American Art
Property of The Newark Museum of Art, Sold to Support Museum Collections
Thomas Moran
Sunset Santa Maria and the Ducal Palace, Venice
Auction Closed
May 19, 03:38 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of The Newark Museum of Art, Sold to Support Museum Collections
Thomas Moran
1837 - 1926
Sunset Santa Maria and the Ducal Palace, Venice
signed TMoran and dated 1902 (lower left); also signed and dated again and titled (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
20 ¼ by 30 inches
(51.4 by 76.2 cm)
This work will be included in Phyllis Braff, Stephen L. Good and Melissa Webster Speidel's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work. We wish to thank them for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.
Dr. J. Ackerman Coles, Scotch Plains, New Jersey
Bequest to the present owner from the above, 1926
Bequest to the present owner from the above, 1926
American Art in the Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, 1981, pp. 132, 354, illustrated
Newark, New Jersey, Newark Public Library, First Coles Exhibition, March 1920, no. 15
Los Angeles, California, Department of Municipal Art, September 1959
Riverside, California, University of California Art Gallery, Thomas Moran:1837-1926, April-June 1963, no. 18, pp. 25, 35, illustrated
Venice, Italy, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia: de Stato a mito, August-November 1997
Los Angeles, California, Department of Municipal Art, September 1959
Riverside, California, University of California Art Gallery, Thomas Moran:1837-1926, April-June 1963, no. 18, pp. 25, 35, illustrated
Venice, Italy, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia: de Stato a mito, August-November 1997
Thomas Moran visited Venice for the first time in May 1886 and was immediately captivated by the grandeur of this distinctively beautiful place, previously only known to him through work of the Romantic writers and painters such as Lord Byron and J.M.W. Turner. Indeed the present work, which Moran painted upon his return to the United States, clearly demonstrates the influence of the British master in its careful attention to the fleeting effects of light and shadow on the water and magnificent architecture of the “Floating City.”