Lot 95
  • 95

Armando Menocal (1863-1942)

Estimate
18,000 - 22,000 USD
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Description

  • Armando Menocal
  • Paisaje con Carroza e Ingenio (Landscape with Carriage and Sugarmill)
  • signed and dated 1894 lower right
  • 17 by 25 1/2 in.
  • (43.1 by 64.7 cm)
oil on canvas

Provenance

Percy Rivington Pyne, New York
Thence by descent to the present owner

Condition

The canvas is possibly relined and is well stretched. Under ultraviolet light there is no evidence of inpainting. Overall in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Born in 1882, noted philanthropist and financier Percy Rivington Pyne II was a member of one of New York's most distinguished families, his grandfather and namesake had been president of the National Bank of New York (today Citibank). Pyne, a graduate of Princeton University, excelled in the banking and railroad industries. In 1910, he commissioned the prominent New York firm of McKim, Mead & White to design his Georgian style townhouse at 680 Park Avenue. The Pyne House, as it was known, was eventually purchased by David Rockefeller in the 1960s and declared a New York historical landmark. Today it is the home of the Americas Society, a highly regarded organization in the field of Latin American art.