Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

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Winslow Homer

Fishing

Auction Closed

January 24, 06:07 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Winslow Homer

1836 - 1910


Fishing

signed with the initials W.H. (lower right)

charcoal, pencil, and Chinese white on paper

8 ⅞ by 10 ¾ in.

22.5 by 27.3 cm.

Executed in 1878.

John G. Pierce, Milton, Massachusetts

Mrs. John G. Pierce, Milton, Massachusetts (acquired by bequest from the above)

Fessenden School, Newton, Massachusetts (acquired as a gift from the above circa 1960)

John Nicolson Gallery, New York (acquired in 1967)

Private Collection

ACA Galleries, New York

Herbert A. Goldstone, New York

ACA Galleries, New York (acquired in 1998)

William Vareika Fine Arts Ltd., Newport (acquired in 1999)

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2002)

Sotheby's, New York, 23 May 2007, lot 5 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1887 - March 1881, vol. III, New York, 2008, no. 715, p. 144, illustrated

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