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Albert Bierstadt 1830 - 1902
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description
- Albert Bierstadt
- Mountain Goats
- signed ABierstadt (lower left)
- oil on paper mounted on canvas
- 13 1/2 by 19 inches
- (34.3 by 48.3 cm)
Provenance
Alexander Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1983
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1983
Exhibited
New York, Alexander Gallery, Albert Bierstadt: An Exhibition of Forty Paintings, September-November 1983, no. 14, illustrated
Catalogue Note
According to the Alexander Gallery exhibition catalogue, "This remarkable painting integrates a topographical study and two closely observed mountain goats. As a skillful hunter, Bierstadt accumulated a large collection of stuffed and mounted animals. These two goats appear in a 1902 photograph of the artist's' studio (see: Hendricks, Albert Bierstadt, p. 319, illustrated fig. 232) and are now in the possession of the Boston Museum of Science. This work was probably painted in the 1870's, a decade during which Bierstadt executed other compositions of western animals" (Albert Bierstadt: An Exhibition of Forty Paintings, New York, 1983).