Lot 50
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WILLIAM STANLEY HASELTINE | Nahant Rocks

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • William Stanley Haseltine
  • Nahant Rocks
  • signed W.S. Haseltine and dated 1865. (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 36 by 60 inches
  • (91.4 by 152.4 cm)

Provenance

Victor Spark, New York, by 1966
[With]Sales & Rental Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, American Landscape: A Changing Frontier, April-June 1966, no. 54, p. 4
San Francisco, California, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum; Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Expressions of Place: The Art of William Stanley Haseltine, June 1992-April 1993, no. 32, p. 105, illustrated

Condition

The canvas is lined and the edges are covered with tape. There is frame abrasion at the extreme edges, fine surface cracking in the darker pigments, and a few scattered pindot surface accretions. Under UV: there is inpainting to address frame abrasion at edges, two thin lines in the sky at upper center and scattered spots and pindots throughout.
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