Lot 21
  • 21

Sanford Robinson Gifford

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Sanford Robinson Gifford
  • Venetian Fishing Boats
  • signed SRG, dated June 1869 and inscribed Venice (lower left) 
  • oil on canvas
  • 7 1/4 by 12 1/4 inches
  • (18.4 by 31.1 cm)

Provenance

Kennedy Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1974

Literature

(possibly) A Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A., New York, 1881, no. 539, p. 37 (as A Sketch of Venetian Fishing-Boats)
Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark, New Jersey, 1987, pp. 126, 275-77, 284, illustrated pp. 275 (detail), 276
Kevin J. Avery and Franklin Kelly, eds., Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, New Haven, Connecticut, 2003, illustrated fig. 141, p. 211

Condition

This work may benefit from a light cleaning. The canvas is lined and the edges are covered with tape. Under UV: there is a horizontal line of inpainting ¼ inch above the bottom edge at lower left and lower right.
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