Two Centuries: American Art

Two Centuries: American Art

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Property of an American Corporation

Robert Henri

Conversation in the Forest

Lot Closed

December 11, 07:43 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of an American Corporation

Robert Henri

1865 - 1929

Conversation in the Forest


signed Robert Henri (lower left)

pastel on tan paper

sheet: 12 3/8 by 19 3/4 inches (31.4 by 50.2 cm)

framed: 22 1/4 by 29 1/2 inches (56.5 by 74.9 cm)

Executed in 1918.

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1988
New York, Montross Gallery, Woodland Pictures by Robert Henri, December 1918
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Annual Exhibition of Watercolors, Pastels, and Miniatures, May - June 1919
(probably) Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Saint Louis, Missouri, Woodland Pastels by Robert Henri, June - July 1919
(probably) Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, 1919 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Eighteenth Annual Philadelphia Water Color Exhibition, November - December 1920
Kansas City, Missouri, Smalley Gallery, 1921
The present work belongs to a large group of pastels Robert Henri produced on Monhegan Island, Maine, in 1918 and might depict the Cathedral Woods.