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Winslow Homer 1836 - 1910
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
- Winslow Homer
- Mead's Perch
- titled Mead's Perch, l.c.
- crayon on paper
- 9 1/2 by 8 in.
- (24.1 by 20.3 cm)
- Executed circa 1864.
Provenance
Charlotte Wilmina Swett (Mrs. Edward Hallowell), Blemont, Massachusetts, circa 1864 (gift from the artist)
Charlotte B. and Emily Hallowell (her daughters), West Medford, Massachusetts, before 1937
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1963 (gift from Emily Hallowell; sold: Christie's, New York, May 31, 1985, lot 53)
Acquired at the above sale
Charlotte B. and Emily Hallowell (her daughters), West Medford, Massachusetts, before 1937
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1963 (gift from Emily Hallowell; sold: Christie's, New York, May 31, 1985, lot 53)
Acquired at the above sale
Exhibited
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Winslow Homer in Monochrome, December 1986-January 1987, no. 15
Literature
Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, vol. I, New York, 2005, no. 241, p. 296, illustrated
Condition
Unframed: backed with Japanese rice paper and hinged to the mat in two places at top edge. Paper darkened, some staining, a few losses to lower left corner and along right edge.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
According to the catalogue raisonné, "when [Lloyd Goodrich] examined this work in September 1938, at the home of the Misses Hallowell, they told him the drawing had been done as a joke for their mother, and represents a mutual friend or relative named Mead, consumed by jealousy because his wife is walking with another man, and a dog which presumably was also Mead's. The objects of his wrath are the diminutive group at the left edge of the drawing. [Goodrich] supposed the caricature was of Orlando Mead, given the inscription and resemblance to the naturalistic portrait sketches of Mead, and that the drawing might have been made at the same July Fourth picnic as that sketch" (Record of Works by Winslow Homer, vol. I, 2005, p. 296).