Lot 223
  • 223

Childe Hassam 1859 - 1935

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description

  • Childe Hassam
  • Along the Seine, Bougival
  • signed Childe Hassam with the artist's crescent device lower left
  • watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 9 by 6 7/8 in.
  • 22.9 by 17.5 cm
  • Executed circa 1889.

Provenance

Kennedy Galleries, New York
Mrs. Ralph J. Hines, New York

Exhibited

New York, American Water Color Society, Illustrated Catalogue of the Twenty-third Annual Exhibition of the American Water Color Society, held at the National Academy of Design, New York, February-March 1890, no. 90, illustrated
(Probably) Boston, Massachusetts, Noyes, Cobb & Company, Exhibition and Sale of Works in Oil and Water Color by Childe Hassam, April 1890, no. 46

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The paper is hinged to the mat at the upper corners. There is one possible spot of foxing in the road at the lower center, and original pinholes in the corners.
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