Lot 79
  • 79

Childe Hassam

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Childe Hassam
  • Nocturne, Provincetown
  • signed Childe Hassam and dated 1900 (lower left); also initialed CH and dated 1900 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 22 by 16 inches
  • (55.9 by 40.6 cm)

Provenance

Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1914
Doll & Richards, Boston, Massachusetts
Charles Dickey Armstrong, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1916
Mary-Martha McClary (his daughter), 1935
Susanna A. Smith (her daughter), 1989
The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1993
Henry Frigon, Kansas City, Missouri, 1994
Private collection, New York
Sold: Doyle, New York, March 26, 2004, lot 94, illustrated
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibited

New York, Waldorf Art Galleries, Spring Exhibition of Modern American Art, April 1903, no. 24
New York, Union League Club, Landscapes by Eight American Artists, January 1904
Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, Annual Exhibition of American Art, May-June 1904, no. 11
Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery, Exhibition of a Retrospective Group of Paintings Representative of the Life Work of Childe Hassam, N.A., March-April 1929, no. 1, p. 13 (as A Street in Provincetown and dated 1911)
Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville Museum of Art; Hagerstown, Maryland, Washington County Museum of Art; South Bend, Indiana, Snite Art Museum; Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Paine Art Center, The Frigon Collection: American Images from the Turn of the Century, 1996

Condition

This work is in very good condition. The canvas is unlined. There is a vertical ridge inherent to the canvas through the center of the large tree in the upper right quadrant. Under UV: some pigments fluoresce unevenly but appear to be original.
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