Lot Essay
The location of the present work has variously been identified as Splendor of the Grand Tetons; British Columbia; or Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau, Switzerland.
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Splendor
Details
ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
Splendor
signed with conjoined initials 'ABierstadt' (lower left)
oil on canvas
30 x 44 in. (76.2 x 111.8 cm.)
Splendor
signed with conjoined initials 'ABierstadt' (lower left)
oil on canvas
30 x 44 in. (76.2 x 111.8 cm.)
Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York.
Jim Fowler's Period Gallery West, Scottsdale, Arizona, by 1980.
Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 2000, lot 166.
Acquired by the late owner from the above.
Jim Fowler's Period Gallery West, Scottsdale, Arizona, by 1980.
Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 2000, lot 166.
Acquired by the late owner from the above.
Literature
Jim Fowler's Period Gallery West, Period Gallery West, vol. 2, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1980, frontispiece illustration.
Further details
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.
Brought to you by
Tylee Abbott
Senior Vice President, Head of American Art