Lot 33
  • 33

Robert Henri 1865 - 1929

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Henri
  • In the Garden of the Luxembourg
  • signed Robert Henri (lower left); also inscribed In the Garden of the/Luxembourg Paris/to my friend Laessle/Robert Henri/Phila. May 1898 (on the reverse)
  • oil on panel
  • 6 1/4 by 9 3/8 inches
  • (15.9 by 23.8 cm)

Provenance

Miss Anne H. Laessle, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (acquired from the above)
Milch Gallery, New York, 1953 (acquired from the above)
Arthur G. Altschul, 1953 (acquired from the above; sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 2006, lot 1, illustrated)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibited

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Robert Henri, March-April 1954, no. 2
New York, The Junior Council of the Museum of Modern Art, Young Collectors, November 1954, no. 19
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Robert Henri, February 1958, no. 39
New York, The New York Cultural Center; New Jersey, Farleigh Dickinson University, Robert Henri, 1865-1929: Painter, Teacher, Prophet, October-December 1969, no. 8, p. 105, illustrated p. 19

Literature

Leslie Katz, "The World of the Eight," Arts Yearbook 1: The Turn of the Century, New York, 1957, p. 60, illustrated
Sidney Geist, "Month in Review," Arts, February 1958, p. 49