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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 19, 2024 | Sotheby's | New York | Art of America | 32 | $****** - ****** | Looking Over the Cliff |
Works on Paper
53.3 x 35.6 cm (20.98 x 14.02 in)
watercolor and pencil on paper
signed Winslow Homer and dated 1882 (lower left)
Benjamin M. Day, New York
Mrs. Benjamin M. Day, New York (acquired by bequest in 1902)
Benjamin M. Day Jr. (acquired by bequest in 1931)
Acquired from the above in 1931 by the present owner
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Winslow Homer, October - November 1944, p. 20
Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, Winslow Homer , November - December 1944, no. 36
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition , November 1958 - March 1959, no. 113, p. 123
Tucson, Arizona, The University of Arizona Art Gallery, Yankee Painter: A Retrospective Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Graphics by Winslow Homer , October - December 1963, no. 116, p. 88
Richmond, Virginia, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Norfolk, Virginia, The Mariners Museum, Homer and the Sea , 1964, no. 21
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Winslow Homer, April - June 1973, no. 99, pp. 87, 138, illustrated
New York, Andrew Crispo Gallery, Ten Americans: Masters of Watercolor, May - June 1974, no. 68, n.p., illustrated
Baltimore, Maryland, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Winslow Homer: Works on Paper, September - November 1978, no. 7, n.p.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Winslow Homer Watercolors, March - May 1986, no. 78, pp. 98-99, illustrated in color
Miami, Florida, Center for the Fine Arts, Winslow Homer: Water and Light, Selected Watercolors, 1874-1897, 1991
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Watercolors by Winslow Homer: The Color of Light, February - May 2008, no. 21, pp. 89, 91, illustrated in color
Marianna G. Van Rensselaer, "An American Artist in England," The Century Magazine, vol. XXVII, 1883, p. 16, illustrated
Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer , New York 1979, no. 363, p. 304
Tony Knipe, All the Cullercoats Pictures , Sunderland, England 1988, p. 108
Tony Harrison, Winslow Homer In England , Ocean Park, Maine 2004, no. 5, p. 67, illustrated
Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer; 1881-1882, vol. IV.1, New York 2005, no. 1112, p. 117, illustrated
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, vol. II, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2008, p. 160, illustrated
Property from a Northeastern Institution
Winslow Homer
1836 - 1910
Looking Over the Cliff
signed Winslow Homer and dated 1882 (lower left)
watercolor and pencil on paper
21 by 14 in.
53.3 by 35.6 cm.
Executed in 1882.
