Félix Ziem

Estimate

35,000 - 55,000 USD

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Description

Félix Ziem
San Giorgio at sunset
signed Ziem (lower right)
oil on panel

Provenance

W.J. White (and sold: American Art Association, New York, March 2-3, 1927, lot 187)
Owen Burns, Sarasota, Florida (acquired circa 1928)
Thence by descent

Literature

Anne Burdin-Hellebranth, Félix Ziem, 1821-1911, n.p., 1998, p. 207, no. 512, illustrated

Catalogue Note

The present work once belonged to Owen Burns an important land developer in Sarasota, Siesta Key and Lido Beach, Florida in the early twentieth century. Burns is perhaps best remembered for the 1926 construction of Cà d'Zan, John and Mable Ringling's Mediterranean Revival style waterfront mansion (and now part of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota).