Lot 26
  • 26

Childe Hassam 1859-1935

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Childe Hassam
  • Twilight After Rain
  • signed Childe Hassam, l.l.; also inscribed in the artist's hand Twilight after Rain / (The rue Royal and the Church of the Madeleine Paris) / Childe Hassam / 95 5th Ave New York on paper affixed to the reverse
  • oil on board
  • 8 by 6 in.
  • (20.3 by 15.2 cm)
  • Painted circa 1887-89.

Provenance

Richard Harding Davis, Mount Kisco, New York
Mrs. Cecil Clark Davis, Marion, Massachusetts
Miss M. Campbell-Hutchinson, New York (sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, November 13, 1957, lot 4)
Estate of Joseph Katz, Baltimore, Maryland, until 1959
Babcock Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1959

Condition

Very good condition; under UV: a few small dashes of inpainting in center sky, a few pin dots of inpainting in lower right corner, otherwise fine.
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