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Property from a Pennsylvania Collection

CHILDE HASSAM | FIRE OPALS (LADY IN FURS: PORTRAIT OF MRS. SEARLE)

Auction Closed

June 26, 03:10 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Pennsylvania Collection

CHILDE HASSAM

1859 - 1935

FIRE OPALS (LADY IN FURS: PORTRAIT OF MRS. SEARLE)


signed Childe Hassam and dated Jan 1912 (upper left); also signed with the artist's initials CH and dated 1912 (on the reverse of the panel)

oil on canvas tacked over panel

48 ½ by 31 ¾ inches

(123.2 by 80.6 cm)


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

The artist

Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison, Los Angeles, California (acquired from the above)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (gift from the above)

Wolfgang Pogzeba (sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 16, 1973, lot 58)

Laurence Kurzner (acquired at the above sale)

Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts

Private collection, New England, circa 1975 (sold: Sotheby's, New York, November 28, 2007, lot 139)

Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Nathaniel Pousette-Dart, Childe Hassam, New York, 1922, illustrated n.p.

San Francisco, California, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, February-December 1915, no. 3733 (as The Woman with Black Furs and Fire Opals)

San Francisco, California, San Francisco Art Association, Post-Exhibition in the Department of Fine Arts, January-May 1916, no. 5526 (as The Woman with Black Furs and Fire Opals)

Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Etchings by Childe Hassam, November-December 3, 1916, no. 4

New York, Milch Galleries, Exhibition of Works in the Various Mediums by Childe Hassam, November-December 1919

Buffalo, New York, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 14th Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists and a Group of Small Selected Bronzes by American Sculptors, May-September 1920, no. 56

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 117th Annual Exhibition, February-March 1922, no. 235