Lot 7
  • 7

Alfred Thompson Bricher 1837-1908

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Alfred Thompson Bricher
  • Beach at Little Boar's Head, New Hampshire
  • signed with the artist's monogrammed signature ATBricher, l.l.
  • watercolor and gouache on paper
  • sight: 11 by 21 3/4 in.
  • (27.9 by 55.2 cm)
  • Painted circa 1875.

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Cecil A. Comfort, Kensington, New Hampshire (sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, April 29, 1976, lot 49)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York (Acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1976

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, An American Perspective: Nineteenth-Century Art from the Collection of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., October 1981-September 1982, p. 115, illustrated in color p. 27

Condition

Very good condition; unframed: hinged to the mat in two places along top edge, remnants of three old hinges affixed to reverse, and remnants of old glue in area underneath the mat.
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