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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 19, 2010 | Sotheby's | New York | American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 34 | $****** - ****** | The Desert At Assouan, Egypt |
paintings
15.2 x 33.7 cm (5.98 x 13.27 in)
oil on canvas
signed S.R. Gifford and dated Assouan Feb. '69, l.r. with the original Gifford Estate Sale stamp affixed to the reverse
Sale: Gifford Estate Sale, Thomas E. Kirby and Co., New York, April 28 and 29, 1881, (probably) no. 119 (as Assouan, Egypt) W.S. Gurnee Isabella Gurnee Thorndike Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, Rhode Island Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, 1969 Webster and Douglas Collins, Longmeadow, Massachusetts, 1969 Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, 1972
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1972.
(probably) New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Memorial Collection of the Works of the Late Sanford R. Gifford, October 1880-March 1881, no. 54, p. 7 (as Assouan, Egypt, a study) Austin, Texas, University of Texas Art Museum; Albany, New York, The Albany Institute of History and Art; New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880), October 1970-February 1971, no. 45, pp. 28, 67, illustrated (as The Desert at Assouan) Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings from the Collection of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., June-July 1973, no. 34 Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nineteenth-Century Art from the Collection of Jo Ann and Julian Ganz, Jr., October 1981-September 1982, p. 133, illustrated p. 32 New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Hudson River School Visions: The Landscapes of Sanford R. Gifford, October 2003-June 2004, no. 47, p. 192, illustrated in color p. 193.
Ila Weiss, Poetic Landscape: The Art and Experience of Sanford Robinson Gifford, Newark, Delaware, 1987, p. 273, illustrated p. 271
