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Frank Buchser

Sacred nook in Virginia

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January 26, 05:50 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

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Frank Buchser

Feldbrunnen 1828 - 1890

Sacred nook in Virginia


signed lower left: F. B;

inscribed, dated, and signed on versoA Sacred Nook in Virginia / July 1867. by Frank Buchser

oil on canvas

canvas: 20⅞ by 30¾ in.; 53 by 78 cm.

framed: 28½ by 38½ in.; 72.4 by 97.8 cm.

Professor K. Kottmann;
Josef B. Gisiger, Selzach, by 1975;
Private collector, Switzerland, by 1990;
Anonymous sale, Bern, Dobiaschofsky Auktionen, 10 May 2019, lot 19;
Where acquired by the present owner.
Thun, Kunstsammlung der Stadt, Frank Buchser, 17 June - 13 August 1967, no. 76;
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; Paris, Grand Palais, The European Vision of America: A Special Exhibition to Honor the Bicentennial of the United States, 7 December 1975 - 3 January 1977, no. 334;
Basel, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Frank Buchser (1828-1890), 9 June - 16 September 1990, no. 11.6.
H. Lüdeke, Frank Buchsers amerikanische Sendung 1866-1871: Eine Chronik seiner Reisen, Basel 1941, p. 51, cat. no. 35, reproduced;
The European Vision of America: A Special Exhibition to Honor the Bicentennial of the United States, H. Honour (ed.), exhibition catalogue, Cleveland 1975, p. 322, cat. no. 334, reproduced;
P.H. Boerlin, Frank Buchser, 1828-1890), exhibition catalogue, Basel 1991, p. 180, cat. no. 11.6, reproduced in color.