Lot 36
  • 36

Winslow Homer

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Winslow Homer
  • Study for The Brierwood Pipe
  • signed Homer (lower right)
  • charcoal and chalk on paper
  • 9 3/4 by 12 5/8 inches
  • (24.8 by 32.1 cm)
  • Executed in 1864.

Provenance

Private collection, by 1950

Literature

Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1890 Through 1910, New York, 2014, vol. V, no. 237.5+, p. 474, illustrated

Condition

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Catalogue Note

The present work is a study for Winslow Homer’s 1864 painting The Brierwood Pipe, which is in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art and depicts two volunteer soldiers for the Union Army. The subject was inspired by a sentimental poem popular at the time, in which a Civil War soldier carves a wooden pipe and daydreams of the time when conflict will end so that he can return home.