Lot 18
  • 18

Marsden Hartley 1877 - 1943

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Marsden Hartley
  • Painting No. 8
  • oil on canvasboard
  • 24 by 31 in.
  • (61 by 78.7 cm)
  • Painted circa 1912-13.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Paul Rosenberg & Company, New York
Babcock Galleries, New York, 1959 (acquired from the above)
Robert Schoelkopf, Inc., New York
R.A. Ellison, by 1971
Andrew Crispo Galleries, New York, circa 1974
Ahmet Ertegun, New York
Private Collection
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York

Exhibited

New York, Babcock Galleries, Marsden Hartley Drawings and Pastels, April-May 1961, no. 22, illustrated on cover (as Abstraction)

Literature

Volume of Photographs of Paintings, Pastels, and Drawings from the Estate of Marsden Hartley, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., no. 138
American Paintings XII, Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, 2005, p. 90, illustrated in color p. 91

Condition

Very good condition; under UV: fine.
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