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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 1, 2010 | Christie's | New York | Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture | 86 | $****** - ****** | Spray of Apple Blossoms |
paintings
36.2 x 31.1 cm (14.25 x 12.24 in)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
signed and dated 'M. J. Heade./1870' (lower right)
Joseph Bradley Heed, half-brother of the artist. Charles Rittenhouse Heed, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, son of the above, by descent. Mrs. Renee Heed Grant, daughter of the above, by descent. [With]David David, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1971. [With]Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, 1971.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 1974. [With]Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, 1976.
Private collection, acquired from the above, 1979. [With]Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, 1981.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1986.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., American Still Lifes of the Nineteenth Century, December 1-31, 1971. New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., The American Experience, October 27-November 27, 1976. New York, American Contemporary Art Galleries, American Flower Painting, 1850-1950, April 1-22, 1978. San Francisco, California, Montgomery Gallery, The American Still Life Tradition, 1855-1985, 1985, no. 12. New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., The Apple of America: The Apple in Nineteenth-Century American Art, May 6-June 26, 1993. Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere, Martin Johnson Heade, September 29, 1999-January 16, 2000.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., American Still Lifes of the Nineteenth Century, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1971, p. 20, no. 24, frontispiece illustration. Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., The American Experience, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1976, n.p., no. 43, illustrated. American Contemporary Art Galleries, American Flower Painting, 1850-1950, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1978, p. 25. Montgomery Gallery, The American Still Life Tradition, 1855-1985, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco, California, 1985, n.p., no. 12, illustrated. Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., The Apple of America: The Apple in Nineteenth-Century American Art, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1993, pp. II, 33, 47, no. 22. T.E. Stebbins, Jr., et al., Martin Johnson Heade, exhibition catalogue, Boston, Massachusetts, 1999, pp. 58, 67, 191, no. 32, illustrated. T.E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade, New Haven, Connecticut, 1975, n.p., no. 215, illustrated. T.E. Stebbins, Jr., The Life and Works of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, Connecticut, 2000, p. 300, no. 399, illustrated.
