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Thomas Hart Benton

Peace at Last

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Thomas Hart Benton

1889 - 1975


Peace at Last

signed Benton and dated 51 (lower left); signed Benton, titled and dated 1951 (on the reverse)

oil on panel

10 ¾ by 9 in.

27.3 by 22.9 cm.

Executed in 1951.


This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by The Thomas Hart Benton Catalogue Raisonné Foundation. Committee Members: Dr. Henry Adams, Jessie Benton, Anthony Benton Gude, Andrew Thompson and Michael Owen.

Albert L. Hydeman, York, Pennsylvania (acquired directly from the artist)

Sotheby Parke-Bernet Inc., New York, 13 December 1973, lot 90 (consigned by the above)

Kennedy Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection, New York

Acquired by descent from the above in 2017 by the present owners

Connecticut, Art Museum of the New Britain Institute, Thomas Hart Benton, 1954, no. 12, n.p., illustrated

Connecticut, Art Museum of the New Britain Institute, Contemporary American PrintsPaintings–Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Hydeman, 1958, no. 2, n.p.

Hartford, Trinity College, Widener Gallery; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial Museum; New London, Connecticut, Lyman Allen Museum; Massachusetts, Brockton Art Center and Massachusetts, Amherst College, Mead Art Building, The Albert L. Hydeman Collection, 1966-71, no. 6

New York, New Rochelle Public Library, Art from Private Collections, 1980, no. 11, n.p.

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