Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Property from an Important American Private Collection
Bananas for the Attorney General
Live auction begins in:
08:07:15
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May 13, 11:00 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500,000 - 2,500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important American Private Collection
Winslow Homer
(1836 - 1910)
Bananas for the Attorney General
signed Winslow Homer and dated 1885 (lower right)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
14 ½ by 21 in. 36.8 by 53.3 cm.
Executed in 1885.
(possibly) Reichard & Co., New York (acquired in 1885)
John La Farge, New York (acquired by 1902)
Mr. Louis Bancel La Farge and Mrs. Mabel Hooper, Boston (acquired by descent from the above circa 1910)
Edward Hooper La Farge, Providence (acquired by descent from the above circa 1945)
Mrs. Anne Wolsey LaFarge, Killingworth, Connecticut (acquired by descent from the above)
Berry Hill Galleries, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above in 2007 by the present owners
Gordon Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, New York, 1979, p. 181
Nicolai Cikovsky, Franklin Kelly, Judith C. Walsh and Charles Brock, Winslow Homer, Washington D.C., 1995, p. 410
Lloyd Goodrich and Abigail Booth Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, vol. IV.2, New York, 2012, no. 1286, pp. 340-41 and 538, illustrated in color
New York, Reichard & Co., Water-Color Views by Winslow Homer, 1885, no. 6
New York Watercolor Club, Thirteenth Annual Exhibition, 1902, no. 13 (titled Banana Carrier)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Oils and Watercolors by Winslow Homer, 1944, p. 27
Worcester Art Museum, Winslow Homer, 1944, no. 42
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art and New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1958-59, no. 124, pp. 64 and 124, illustrated
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