$33,210
Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823-1880) Hudson River Marshes, A Study Unsigned, stamped "S. R. Gifford SALE" in red in a circular format on the reverse. Oil on canvas, 5 x 10 3/16 in. (12.7 x 25.9 cm), framed. Condition: Scattered minor paint losses, minor surface grime. Provenance: A private California collection. N.B. This unsigned marsh view is surely related to Sanford Gifford's Marshes on the Hudson, (1878, private collection), included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Hudson River Visions in 2003. Writing in the exhibition catalogue, Dr. Franklin Kelly noted that the point of view is Piermont, New York, on the west shore of the Hudson River, looking to Hook Mountain, part of Nyack, New York, at the left. The stamp on the reverse of the painting at hand appears to indicate it was part of the 1881 Gifford estate sale, and it is most likely one of two undated pictures referenced as "Hudson River Scenery" (5 x 9 1/2 in.) and "On the Hudson" (6 x 11 in.), respectively nos. 54 and 97 in the Friday, 15 April 1881 sale of the Catalogue of Valuable Oil Paintings . . . Sanford R. Gifford (New York: Thomas E. Kirby, 1881). The two works are also listed in the Memorial Catalogue of the Paintings of Sanford Robinson Gifford, N.A. (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1881), p. 34, nos. 472, 473, titled respectively, "A Sketch of Hudson River Scenery" and "A Sketch on the Hudson." The discrepancy between the sizes given for those works and Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-05-29
