Lot 18
  • 18

CHILDE HASSAM | Bather and Cloud Reflections

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Childe Hassam
  • Bather and Cloud Reflections
  • signed Childe Hassam and dated 1914 (lower left); also signed with initials CH, dated again and titled Bather and Cloud/Reflections. (on the reverse) 
  • oil on canvas
  • 35 x 40 in.; 88.9 x 101.6 cm

Provenance

The artist
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 1935 (bequest from the above)
[With]Milch Galleries, New York, 1959
Mr. Harry Fleishman, New York, 1959
[With]M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by 1973
[With]Chapellier Galleries, New York, 1973
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1973

Exhibited

New York, Milch Galleries, Long Island Paintings by Childe Hassam, February-March 1958, no. 1
East Hampton, New York, Guild Hall Museum, Pleasures of Summer, July-August 1958, no. 30
New York, Hammer Galleries, Childe Hassam, February 1969, no. 14, illustrated 

Condition

The canvas is unlined There is frame abrasion at edges with some associated loss. Under UV: some pigments fluoresce but there is no apparent inpainting.
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Catalogue Note

This work will be included in Stuart P. Feld's and Kathleen M. Burnside's forthcoming catalogue raisonnĂ© of the artist's work.