Modern Day Auction

Modern Day Auction

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Property from an Important Corporate Collection

Marsden Hartley

Tropic Fantasy

Session begins in

May 14, 05:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Bid

180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Corporate Collection

Marsden Hartley

1877 - 1943


Tropic Fantasy

oil on canvasboard

19 ¼ by 16 ¾ in.

48.9 by 42.5 cm.

Executed in 1935-36. 


This work is included in The Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: The Complete Paintings and Works on Paper, by Gail R. Scott in cooperation with Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine.

Nierendorf Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist)

Mr. William L. McKim, New York (acquired from the above in June 1943)

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 25 October, 1979, lot 214

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Edward R. Downe Jr., New York (acquired by 1985)

Christie's, New York, 6 December 1985, lot 257B (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Berry Hill Galleries, Inc., The Heart of the Matter: The Still Lives of Marsden Hartley, 2003, pp. 64-65, fig. 49, illustrated

New York, Salander O'Reilly Galleries, Inc., Marsden Hartley: Paintings and Drawings, 1985, no. 63, illustrated