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Mountain Lake
Details
ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
Mountain Lake
signed with conjoined initials 'ABierstadt' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 ¼ x 52 ¼ in. (92.1 x 132.7 cm.)
Mountain Lake
signed with conjoined initials 'ABierstadt' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 ¼ x 52 ¼ in. (92.1 x 132.7 cm.)
Provenance
Joseph Cullinan, Houston, Texas, by 1937.
Private collection, by descent from the above.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, gift from the above, by 1945.
Sotheby's, New York, 23 May 2007, lot 140, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Private collection, by descent from the above.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, gift from the above, by 1945.
Sotheby's, New York, 23 May 2007, lot 140, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
The Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, Texas, vol. VIII, nos. 2-3, Summer-Autumn 1945, cover illustration.
G. Hendricks, Albert Bierstadt: Painter of the American West, New York, 1974, p. 348, no. CL-239, illustrated.
G. Hendricks, Albert Bierstadt: Painter of the American West, New York, 1974, p. 348, no. CL-239, illustrated.
Exhibited
Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, Days on the Range: Artists in the American West, February 5-March 5, 1972, pp. 16, 44, no. 3, fig. 6, illustrated.
Further Details
We would like to thank Melissa Webster Speidel, President of the Bierstadt Foundation and Director of the Albert Bierstadt catalogue raisonné project, for her assistance in the cataloguing of this lot. This work is included in the database being compiled for her forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
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Senior Vice President, Head of American Art