Art of America
Art of America
Property from the Estate of Suzanne and Stanley S. Arkin
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