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Property of a West Coast Collector

Maxfield Parrish

Rubaiyat

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a West Coast Collector

Maxfield Parrish

1870 - 1966


Rubaiyat

signed with the initials M.P (lower center)

oil on paper laid down to board

8¼ by 30¼ in.

21 by 76.8 cm.

Executed in 1916.

American Illustrators Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in May 2000 by the present owner

Cleveland, Crane's Chocolate, Rubaiyat for Christimas Box, 1917 (original usage)

Coy Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish, New York 1973, pl. 39, pp. 133-34 and 140-41, illustrated

Alma Gilbert, Maxfield Parrish: The Masterworks, Berkeley, California 1992, fig. 7.1, pp. 149-151, 154 and 200, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art; Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (and traveling), Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966, 1999-2000, pp. 81 and 137-38

Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler, Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists, Edison, New Jersey 2004, pp. 229, 248, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Reno, Nevada Museum of Art; The San Diego Museum of Art; Savannah, Georgia, Telfair Museum of Art (and traveling), Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe, 2005, p. 47

Paul W. Skeeters, Maxfield Parrish: The Early Years, Los Angeles p. 32-33, illustrated