Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

Art of the Americas, Featuring the American West

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Sanford Robinson Gifford

Sunrise on the Seashore

No reserve

Session begins in

January 24, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Bid

4,800 USD

Lot Details

Description

Sanford Robinson Gifford

1823 - 1880


Sunrise on the Seashore

signed SR Gifford and dated 1865 (lower right)

oil on canvas

11 ¾ by 19 ¾ in.

29.8 by 50.2 cm.

Executed in 1865.


This lot is accompanied by a letter of opinion from Dr. Ila Weiss, the leading Sanford Robinson Gifford scholar, from 2016.

John Thompson Wilson, Lexington, Virginia (acquired by 1880)

Josephine Burrell

Isabella Egenton Kinnan Burnham, New York (acquired as a gift from the above in 1882)

Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above)

Christie's, New York, 22 November 2016, lot 36

Private Collection, Portsmouth (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above circa 2016 by the present owner

John F. Weird, A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N. A., New York, 1881, no. 410, p. 31 (titled Sunset on the Sea)

Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark, Delaware, 1987, pp. 162 and 243 (titled Sunset on the Seashore)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Memorial Collection of the Works of the Late Sanford R. Gifford, October 1880 - May 1881, no. 125, p. 10 (titled Sunset)