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CHILDE (FREDERICK) HASSAM (American, 1859-1935)
Estimate:
$10,000 - $15,000
Sold
$7,500
Live Auction
Fall Estates | December 2022
Category
Description
Chestnut Trees, Old Lyme, CT 1903
Watercolor and pastel on paper
Signed with initials C.H. and inscribed "Lyme, July 10 [?] 1903" lower left, painted on heavy blue bi-fold paper (a former catalogue cover reading "Catalogue of the First Annual Exhibition of the Central New York Society of Artists held in the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts During the Month of November 1902"); Babcock Galleries label on verso with inventory number 10651
h. 9 w. 10-5/8 in.
overall: 18 x 19 in. (frame)
We are most grateful to Stuart Feld for his assistance in cataloguing this lot. This work will be included in Stuart P. Feld and Kathleen M. Burnside's forthcoming catalogue raisonne of the artist's work
Watercolor and pastel on paper
Signed with initials C.H. and inscribed "Lyme, July 10 [?] 1903" lower left, painted on heavy blue bi-fold paper (a former catalogue cover reading "Catalogue of the First Annual Exhibition of the Central New York Society of Artists held in the Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts During the Month of November 1902"); Babcock Galleries label on verso with inventory number 10651
h. 9 w. 10-5/8 in.
overall: 18 x 19 in. (frame)
We are most grateful to Stuart Feld for his assistance in cataloguing this lot. This work will be included in Stuart P. Feld and Kathleen M. Burnside's forthcoming catalogue raisonne of the artist's work
Condition
In excellent shape; sheet is "floating" in the frame and slightly bows outward; crease at the center that was in the paper when Hassam painted it (being a cover of an exhibition catalog); the colors are bright and vivid and show no evidence of fading
Provenance
Babcock Galleries, New York, NY, thence by descent in the family of late Herbert Goldstone;
A Park Avenue, New York estate
