Lot 91
  • 91

Childe Hassam 1859-1935

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Childe Hassam
  • Wild Swans Sacred to Apollo
  • signed Childe Hassam Montauk and dated Oct. 23rd 1921, l.r.; also signed with the artist's monogrammed initials CH and dated 1924 on the reverse
  • oil on panel
  • 10 by 36 in.
  • (25.4 by 91.4 cm)

Provenance

Milch Galleries, New York (acquired from the artist)
Hersey Egginton, New York
R. Brown (sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, February 3, 1954, lot 89)
William Dickey (acquired at the above sale; sold: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, April 25, 1980, lot 101, illustrated in color)
Graham Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection (sold: Sotheby's, New York, June 6, 1997, lot 13, illustrated in color)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibited

New York, William Macbeth Gallery, Montauk by Childe Hassam, N. A. of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, December 1924-January 1925, no. 18
Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, n.d. 

Condition

Good condition, dime size area of surface accretion in lower left register, possibly from wood panel; under UV: fine.
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