Frederick Carl Frieseke
The Apple Tree
Estimate:
400,000
Frederick Carl Frieseke
1874 - 1939
The Apple Tree
signed FC Frieseke- (lower left)
oil on canvas
31 3/4 by 25 1/2 inches
(80.6 by 52.1 cm)
Painted by 1908.
This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work being complied by Nicholas Kilmer, the artist's grandson, and sponsored by Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York
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Estate of the above
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York
Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Dillingham, 1966 (acquired from the above)
Hammer Galleries, New York
Private collection, circa 1970 (acquired from the above)
By descent to the present owner
Paris, France, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1909, no. 457 (as Le pommier)
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., Frederick Frieseke, 1874-1939, April-May 1966, no. 13 (as Picking Apples)