Property from the Estate of Harrison Eddins, Jr.
Emil Bisttram
The Compassionate Heart
Auction Closed
May 20, 08:59 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of Harrison Eddins, Jr.
Emil Bisttram
1895 - 1976
The Compassionate Heart
signed Bisttram (lower right)
pencil on paper laid down on Masonite
image: 18 ⅝ by 14 ⅛ in. 47.3 by 35.9 cm.
board: 23 ¾ by 18 in. 60.3 by 45.7 cm.
Executed circa 1938.
Martin Diamond Fine Arts, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1980)
Christie’s East, New York, 3 December 1996, lot 297
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner
Ruth Pasquine, The Politics of Redemption: Dynamic Symmetry, Theosophy, and Swedenborgianism in the Art of Emil Bisttram (1895–1976), Doctoral Dissertation, City University of New York, 2000, pp. xxiv, 418, 437 and 694, fig. 142, illustrated