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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 5, 2013 | Christie's | New York | American Art | 75 | $****** - ****** | May Day, Way Up Town |
paintings
47.6 x 62.2 cm (18.74 x 24.49 in)
oil on board
signed and dated 'Childe Hassam 1920' with artist's crescent device (lower right)--signed with initials, dated again and inscribed with title (on the reverse)--inscribed with title again (on a label affixed to the reverse)
The artist. American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, by bequest, 1935. [With]E. & A. Milch, Inc., New York. Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Seidman, Del Mar, California, acquired from the above, 1961.
By descent to the present owner.
(Possibly) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 116th Annual Exhibition, February 6-March 27, 1921, no. 462 (as Early Spring: 'Way Up Town). San Diego, California, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Out of Sight: Works of Art from San Diego Collections, March 18-April 23, 1972. San Diego, California, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1973, 1976, 1977, on loan. San Diego, California, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Friends of Friends, April 27, 1979. San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Art, Insight: Selections from San Diego Private Collections, April 23-June 12, 1983. San Diego, California, San Diego Museum of Art, 1983, on loan. Memphis, Tennessee, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, February 1988, on loan. Allentown, Pennsylvania, Allentown Art Museum, Paths to Impressionism: French and American Landscape Paintings, October 24, 2004-February 13, 2005.
(Possibly) Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the 116th Annual Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1921, n.p., no. 462 (as Early Spring: 'Way Up Town). Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, Out of Sight: Works of Art from San Diego Collections, exhibition catalogue, San Diego, California, 1972, n.p., illustrated. G. Holcomb, Insight: Selections from San Diego Private Collections, exhibition checklist, San Diego, California, 1983. E. Howard, "American Paintings at Dixon Are in Mint Condition," Memphis Business Journal, May 2-6, 1988, p. 55.
