Property of the Audrey Flack Foundation
The Palm Fronde (La Palme)
Auction Closed
May 22, 04:37 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
William Bouguereau
La Rochelle 1825 - 1905
The Palm Fronde (La Palme)
signed and dated lower left: W-BOUGUEREAU-1894
oil on canvas
canvas: 39.4 by 22.6 in.; 100 by 57.3 cm
framed: 49 by 32 ¼ in.; 124.5 by 81.9 cm
With Tooth & Sons, London;
Mrs. Henderson, Washington D.C.;
Mrs. Wilton J. Lambert, Washington D.C.;
Mrs. Elizabeth Lambert Baker, Washington D.C.;
Mr. and Mrs. Selden, Washington D.C.;
By whom sold, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 9 October 1974, lot 141;
Audrey Flack, New York, by 1992;
Thence by descent to the Audrey Flack Foundation.
Franqueville, William Bouguereau, Paris, 1895;
M. Vachon, W. Bouguereau, Paris 1900, p. 158 (as La Palme);
Catalogue Braun & Clément, (s.1., n.d.), photograph no. 4231 (as La palme);
L. d'Argencourt, "Bouguereau et le marché de l'art en France," in William Bouguereau, 1825-1905, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1984, p. 137, fig. 113, reproduced;
M. S. Walker, in William-Adolphe Bouguereau: A Summary Catalogue of the Paintings, exhibition catalogue, New York 1991, pp. 54-55, 74, n.n., reproduced;
D. Bartoli, F. C. Ross, William Bouguereau, Catalogue Raisonné of his Painted Work, New York 2010, p. 291, no. 1894/09, reproduced;
Bouguereau & His Milleu at Hirschl & Adler Gallery, exhibition catalogue, New York 2011, n.p., n.n.
New York, Borghi & Co., William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 14 November 1991 - 7 January 1992 (as La palme)
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