The Hudson River School in Focus: Property from the Friedman Collection
Sanford Robinson Gifford
Derwentwater
Lot Closed
January 20, 07:32 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Hudson River School in Focus: Property from the Friedman Collection
Sanford Robinson Gifford
1823 - 1880
Derwentwater
oil on canvas
10 ½ by 20 in.
26.6 by 50.8 cm.
Executed circa 1855.
We are grateful to Dr. Ila Weiss, the leading Sanford Robinson Gifford scholar, for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
Private Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 1990, lot 14 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Dallas (acquired from the above)
Alexander Gallery, New York
Questroyal Fine Art, New York (acquired from the above in 1998)
Acquired from the above in December 1998 by the present owner
Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University and Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, A Focused Collection: The Hudson River School, April - October 2007, no. 6, pp. 18, 19 and 20, illustrated in color
(probably) A Memorial Catalogue of the Painting of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N. A., New York 1881, no. 119 or 128, pp. 18-19
Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford R. Gifford, Newark 1987, p. 191