Lot 58
  • 58

William Holbrook Beard 1824 - 1900

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • William Holbrook Beard
  • The Witches Convention
  • signed W.H. Beard and dated 1876 (lower right)
  • oil on canvas
  • 38 by 58 1/4 inches
  • (96.5 by 148 cm)

Provenance

Private Collection, Massachusetts, until 1938
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts
Joseph Katz, Baltimore, Maryland, 1945 (acquired from the above)
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York
Alexander Gallery, New York
Gloria and Richard Manney, New York (sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 27, 1993, lot 159, illustrated)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art (and traveling), Romantic Painting in America, November 1943-April 1945, no. 17
New York, Alexander Gallery, William Holbrook Beard: Animals in Fantasy, April-May 1981, no. 25, illustrated in color p. 43