Nov 2, 2021 11:00 EST
American Paintings & Prints
64
Albert Bierstadt
German/American, 1830-1902
Rising Mist, White Mountains, New Hampshire, circa 1857
Inscribed White Mts. N. H. on the reverse
Oil on paper mounted to board
5 1/2 x 7 3/16 inches
Provenance:
Florence Lewison Gallery, New York
Exhibited:
New York, NY, Florence Lewison Gallery, The Creative Core of Bierstadt, The Abstract Basis of His Art: An Exhibition of Twenty-Four Studies in Oil, Oct. 8 - Nov. 16, 1963, cat. no. # 2
Literature:
Catherine H. Campbell, Albert Bierstadt and the White Mountains, Archives of American Art Journal 21, no. 3, 1981 p. 20
This work is included in the Albert Bierstadt database being compiled in preparation for a catalogue raisonne of the artist's paintings.
We would like to thank Melissa Webster Speidel, President of the Bierstadt Foundation and Director of the Albert Bierstadt catalogue raisonné project, for her assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.
Sold for $6,250
Estimated at $3,000 - $5,000
Includes Buyer's Premium
Albert Bierstadt
German/American, 1830-1902
Rising Mist, White Mountains, New Hampshire, circa 1857
Inscribed White Mts. N. H. on the reverse
Oil on paper mounted to board
5 1/2 x 7 3/16 inches
Provenance:
Florence Lewison Gallery, New York
Exhibited:
New York, NY, Florence Lewison Gallery, The Creative Core of Bierstadt, The Abstract Basis of His Art: An Exhibition of Twenty-Four Studies in Oil, Oct. 8 - Nov. 16, 1963, cat. no. # 2
Literature:
Catherine H. Campbell, Albert Bierstadt and the White Mountains, Archives of American Art Journal 21, no. 3, 1981 p. 20
This work is included in the Albert Bierstadt database being compiled in preparation for a catalogue raisonne of the artist's paintings.
We would like to thank Melissa Webster Speidel, President of the Bierstadt Foundation and Director of the Albert Bierstadt catalogue raisonné project, for her assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.
A few scattered touches of inpainting are visible under UV light.
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Auction: American Paintings & Prints, Nov 2, 2021
