Frederick Carl Frieseke

Sun Spots

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October 4, 04:11 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Midwestern Estate

Frederick Carl Frieseke

1874 - 1939

Sun Spots

signed F.C. Frieseke. (lower right)

oil on canvas

25 ½ by 32 in.

64.8 by 81.3 cm.

Executed circa 1926.

Sun Spots is included in the draft Frieseke Catalogue Raisonné, compiled by Nicholas Kilmer, the artist's grandson, with the support of the Hollis Taggart Galleries. That draft is now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art.

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Savannah, The Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Frederick Frieseke, 1874-1939, 1975, no. 12, p. 18

Fort Wayne, Indiana, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Images of Women from the Permanent Collection, 1995