Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

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Property from the Collection of Maude B. Feld, New York

Martin Johnson Heade

Hummingbirds and Gold and Purple Orchids

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January 24, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Bid

1,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Maude B. Feld, New York

Martin Johnson Heade

1819 - 1904


Hummingbirds and Gold and Purple Orchids

signed MJ Heade (lower left)

oil on canvas

14 by 22 ¼ in.

35.6 by 56.5 cm.

Executed circa 1875-83.

Victor Spark, New York (acquired by 1959)

Mr. and Mrs. J. William Middendorf II, Greenwich

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired in 1965)

Maude B. Feld, New York

Acquired by descent from the above in 1995 to the present owner

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade, New Haven, 1975, fig. 78, no. 221, p. 143-45, 255, illustrated

Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonnė, New Haven, 2000, no. 485, pp. 96, 99 and 320, illustrated

Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Two Hundred and Fifty Years of Art in Pennsylvania, 1959, no. 54, pl. 57, illustrated