Lot 7
  • 7

John Haberle 1856 - 1933

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • John Haberle
  • A Misunderstanding
  • signed Haberle and dated 1892, l.r.; also titled A Misunderstanding and signed Haberle on the frame designed by the artist
  • oil on canvas
  • 10 1/4 by 16 in.
  • (26.0 by 40.6 cm)

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Gladys Haberle Fresneda and Vera M. Haberle Dummer (the artist's daughters)
Gloria F. Shiner (the artist's granddaughter)
Sale: Christie's, New York, December 7, 1984, lot 95, illustrated in color
A New York Estate (sale: Christie's, New York, November 30, 1999, lot 21, illustrated in color)

Exhibited

Springfield, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts; Stamford, Connecticut, Whitney Museum of American Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, John Haberle: Master of Illusion, June 1985-January 1986, no. 14, pp. 28, 37, illustrated
Waterbury, Connecticut, Mattatuck Museum, Connecticut Masters November 1986-April 1987
Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, American Art Forum Painting and Sculpture 1875-1935, March-July 1993
New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, Virtual Reality: American Trompe l'Oeil Paintings, May-June 1994

Literature

Berry-Hill Galleries, American Paintings III, New York, 1985, p. 56, illustrated
Gertrude Grace Sill, "Two Rediscovered Paintings by John Haberle," Antiques, vol. CXXXII, no. 5, November 1987, pp. 1118-19, illustrated

Condition

Very good condition, unlined. Under UV: Two 1/4 inch vertical lines of retouching near cat's tail.
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