Lot 74
  • 74

Winslow Homer

Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Winslow Homer
  • Two Schooners
  • signed HOMER and dated 1880 (lower right)
  • watercolor and pencil on paper
  • 10 by 14 inches
  • (25.4 by 35.6 cm)

Provenance

Burton Mansfield, New York and New Haven, Connecticut, circa 1903 (sold: American Art Galleries, New York, April 7, 1933, lot 101)
Mrs. Harlow Brooks, New York, 1933 (acquired at the above sale)
[With]Wildenstein & Co., New York, circa 1950
Kenneth Franzheim, Houston, Texas, 1953
Lillie Franzheim Webb (his sister; sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 20, 1998, lot 97)
Private collection (acquired at the above sale)
By descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Boston, Massachusetts, Doll & Richards, December 1880
(probably) New York, Macbeth Gallery, November 1892
Houston, Texas, Allied Arts Association Annual Art Festival, Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings by Winslow Homer, 1936-1910, November 1952, no. 17

Literature

Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer: 1877 through 1881, vol. III, New York, 2008, no. 996, p. 379, illustrated

Condition

The sheet is hinged to the support at two places on reverse of top edge. The sheet appears to be slightly toned and some pigments may be slightly faded.
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