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Property from the Estate of Suzanne and Stanley S. Arkin

Sanford Robinson Gifford

The Falls of Tivoli

Auction Closed

January 19, 07:25 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Suzanne and Stanley S. Arkin

Sanford Robinson Gifford

1823 - 1880

The Falls of Tivoli


signed S.R. Gifford and dated '69 (lower right)

oil on canvas

7 ¾ by 13 ½ in.

19.7 by 34.3 cm.

Executed in 1869.


We are grateful to Dr. Ila Weiss, the leading Sanford Robinson Gifford scholar, for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.

John H. Sherwood, New York

George A. Leavitt & Co. New York, 18 December 1879, lot 100 (consigned by the above)

Heber R. Bishop, New York (acquired from the above)

The American Art Association, New York, 19 January 1906, lot 3 (consigned by the Estate of the above; titled Italian Landscape)

William A. Nash, New York (acquired from the above)

Lee B. Anderson, New York (acquired by 1961)

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1973)

Private Collection, Philadelphia (acquired from the above in 1973)

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1979)

Alexander Gallery, New York (acquired by 1985)

Acquired from the above in August 1995 by the present owner

John F. Weird, A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N. A., New York 1881, no. 550, p. 38

Ila Weiss, Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880), New York, 1977, p. 309

Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark 1987, pl. 26, pp. 129 and 278, illustrated

Natalie Spassky, American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. II, New York 1985, pp. 174-76, illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Alexander Gallery, Christmas of 1989, Something for Everyone, 1989, pp. 176-77, illustrated

New London, Connecticut, Lyman Allyn Museum, American Romantic Paintings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Collection of Lee B. Anderson, 1961, no. 31, n.p.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, In This Academy, 1976, no. 169, p. 135-36 and 295, illustrated

New York, Alexander Gallery, Sanford R. Gifford, 1986, no. 35, illustrated

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Adventure & Inspiration: American Artists in Other Lands, 1988, no. 40, p. 64, illustrated

New York, National Academy of Design, Dreams and Shadows: Thomas H. Hotchkiss in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1993-94, no. 10, p. 136

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