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American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists
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- Sale 2105
Live
| Philadelphia
Dec 8 | 2:00 PM EST
Live
| Philadelphia
Sale 2105
| Philadelphia
| Philadelphia
Estimate$250,000 – $400,000
The present work will be included in Stuart Feld and Kathleen Burnside's catalogue raisonné of the artist's work. We wish to thank Alice Duncan for her help researching this artwork and assistance with the following lot essay.
Provenance:
The Hanley Collection.
The Pfeil Collection.
Adelson Galleries, Inc., New York, New York, 1998.
Property from a Private Collection.
Exhibited:
Columbus, Ohio, The Columbus Gallery of Fine Art, Works from the Hanley Collection, November 7 - December 15, 1968.
Boston, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, 1983 (extended loan).
Literature:
Adelson Galleries, Inc. and Meredith Long & Company, Childe Hassam: An American Impressionist, exh. cat., New York, 1999, no. 9, illus.
Lot Essay:
The success of Childe Hassam’s metropolitan views of Boston, New York, and Paris is attributed to his love of observing the vitality of city life and his unique style of composition, color light, and atmosphere. Hassam’s paintings of Parisian boulevards have long been acknowledged as masterworks of the artist’s oeuvre, with the present work certainly amongst the finest.
In 1886 the artist and his wife settled in Paris where they would remain for the next three years. The painter studied at the Académie Julien but it was his independent study of “modern” art (the Impressionists) that freed Hassam in palette, subject matter and style, and set the tone for his major works to come.
September Sunlight is a snapshot of contemporary life in Paris- capturing couture, the café life, the traffic, and the parks of this modern city. The scene takes place at the terrace of Café du Tambourin, a restaurant owned by Agostina Segatori. Originally set in the heart of Paris, rue de Richelieu, the famous café reopened on the Boulevard de Clichy not long before the present work was completed. It hosted many artists, including van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Edgar Degas, who lived nearby. Hassam represented the café on at least one other occasion, revealing his interest in depicting modern, buoyant urban life, which French Impressionists tended to neglect, favoring the rural countryside.
The lined canvas in overall good condition. Some parts of the sky might benefit from a light cleaning judging from small, minor brown splashes. Examination under UV light reveals fluorescence, mostly due to the red and brown pigments (see the woman's hair at bottom center), some foliage in the row of trees at center right. According to us, the white cloud in the sky at bottom center left is likely unpainted, along with pinpoint dots on the woman's right shoulder and bustier (her back) at bottom center right. See Specialist's pictures for more details.
Framed: 27 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.
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Adam Veil
VP, Head of Department, American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionists
