Property from an Important American Collector
Childe Hassam
Fire and Rainy Night (Firelight, Boston)
Auction Closed
January 19, 07:25 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important American Collector
Childe Hassam
1859 - 1935
Fire and Rainy Night (Firelight, Boston)
signed Childe Hassam (lower left)
oil on canvas
14 ⅛ by 18 ⅛ in.
36 by 46.2 cm.
Executed in 1886.
This work will be included in Stuart P. Feld's and Kathleen M. Burnside's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
Private Collection
Newhouse Galleries, New York
Roderick H. Watkins, Winona, Minnesota (acquired from the above in 1937)
Private Collection, Winona, Minnesota (acquired by descent from the above)
Alexander Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in November 1997 by the present owner
Exh. Cat., New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, American Impressionism II, May - June 1989, fig. 17, n.p., illustrated in color
The subject of the present work depicts a fire in the New England Fair Building on Huntington Avenue in Boston that occurred on January 21, 1886. According to Kathleen Burnside, co-author of the Hassam catalogue raisonné, this work was originally titled Fire and Rainy Night but has since been exhibited under the titles Firelight, Boston and The Alarm.