Lot 41
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Maxfield Parrish 1870 - 1966

Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
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Description

  • Maxfield Parrish
  • Two Cooks and a Haggis
  • signed Maxfield Parrish (lower center); also inscribed M.P. Jr. No 9 on the reverse
  • oil on masonite
  • 25 by 19 7/8 inches
  • (63.5 by 50.5 cm)

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts
Private Collection, circa 1970 (acquired from the above)
By descent to the present owner

Literature

Collier's, The National Weekly, December 26, 1936, illustrated in color on the cover
Maxfield Parrish, Jr., ed., Illustrated Catalog of the Paintings and Sketches of Maxfield Parrish, 1973, no. 9, illustrated (as Two brawny cooks making a plum pudding in a large copper cauldron)
Paul W. Skeeters, Maxfield Parrish: The Early Years 1893-1930, Secaucus, New Jersey, 1973, illustrated p. 333
Coy Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish, New York, 1973, no. 764, p. 209 (as Two cooks making a pudding in a large pot)