Lot 55
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WINSLOW HOMER | Gathering Wild Blackberries

Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 USD
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Description

  • Winslow Homer
  • Gathering Wild Blackberries
  • ink, wash, gouache and pencil on paper partially laid down on board
  • 9 by 13 7/8 inches
  • (22.9 by 35.2 cm)
  • Executed circa 1880.

Provenance

Arthur B. Davies, New York
Estate of the above (sold: American Art Association, New York, April 17, 1929, lot 376)
Lillian Timkin, New York, 1929 (acquired at the above sale)
Estate of the above (sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, May 18, 1960, lot 11)
Private collection (acquired at the above sale)
By descent to the present owner

Literature

Edward Payson Roe, "Success with Small Fruits," Scribner's Monthly, vol. 19, April 1880, p. 806, illustrated
Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1877-March 1881, vol. III, New York, 2008, no. 821, p. 241, illustrated

Condition

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