Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection
Modern America: The Wolf Family Collection
John La Farge
Entrance to the Vai-Te-Piha River, Cook's Anchorage
Auction Closed
April 20, 07:56 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
John La Farge
1835 - 1910
Entrance to the Vai-Te-Piha River, Cook's Anchorage
signed La Farge, dated 91 and inscribed Tahiti / Vai Te Piha (lower right)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
17½ x 19¾ in. (44.5 x 50.2 cm.)
Executed in 1891.
Thomas Colville Fine Art, New York
Wolf Family Collection No. 0898 (acquired from the above on June 8, 1987)
New York, Vance Jordan Fine Art, Recreation and Idleness: The Pacific Travels of John La Farge, 1998, no. 134, pp. 102-104, illustrated
Yonkers, New York, The Hudson River Museum; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute; Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art, John La Farge: Watercolors and Drawings, 1990-91
Yonkers, New York, The Hudson River Museum; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute; Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art, John La Farge: Watercolors and Drawings, 1990-91