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Property from a Northeastern Institution

Winslow Homer

Looking Over the Cliff

Auction Closed

January 19, 07:25 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Northeastern Institution

Winslow Homer

1836 - 1910

Looking Over the Cliff


signed Winslow Homer and dated 1882 (lower left)

watercolor and pencil on paper

21 by 14 in.

53.3 by 35.6 cm.

Executed in 1882.

Benjamin M. Day, New York

Mrs. Benjamin M. Day, New York (acquired by bequest in 1902)

Benjamin M. Day Jr. (acquired by bequest in 1931)

Acquired from the above in 1931 by the present owner

Marianna G. Van Rensselaer, "An American Artist in England," The Century Magazine, vol. XXVII, 1883, p. 16, illustrated

Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, New York 1979, no. 363, p. 304

Tony Knipe, All the Cullercoats Pictures, Sunderland, England 1988, p. 108

Tony Harrison, Winslow Homer In England, Ocean Park, Maine 2004, no. 5, p. 67, illustrated

Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer; 1881-1882, vol. IV.1, New York 2005, no. 1112, p. 117, illustrated

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, vol. II, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2008, p. 160, illustrated

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Winslow Homer, October - November 1944, p. 20

Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, Winslow Homer, November - December 1944, no. 36

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, November 1958 - March 1959, no. 113, p. 123

Tucson, Arizona, The University of Arizona Art Gallery, Yankee Painter: A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Graphics by Winslow Homer, October - December 1963, no. 116, p. 88

Richmond, Virginia, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Norfolk, Virginia, The Mariners Museum, Homer and the Sea, 1964, no. 21

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Winslow Homer, April - June 1973, no. 99, pp. 87, 138, illustrated

New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Ten Americans: Masters of Watercolor, May - June 1974, no. 68, n.p., illustrated

Baltimore, Maryland, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Winslow Homer: Works on Paper, September - November 1978, no. 7, n.p.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Winslow Homer Watercolors, March - May 1986, no. 78, pp. 98-99, illustrated in color

Miami, Florida, Center for the Fine Arts, Winslow Homer: Water and Light, Selected Watercolors, 1874-1897, 1991

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, February - May 2008, no. 21, pp. 89, 91, illustrated in color

Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Museum, Coming Away: Winslow Homer and England, November 2017 - May 2018