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Lot Essay
We would like to thank the Hassam catalogue raisonné committee for their assistance with cataloguing this work.
This work will be included in Stuart P. Feld's and Kathleen M. Burnside's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
Executed in 1898, Outside the Café on the Grand Boulevard captures Childe Hassam's fascination with the unique metropolitan culture of Paris. As Ulrich W. Heisinger explains, "Hassam's greatest amusement was to wander about the streets of Paris in search of motifs for his paintings." (Childe Hassam: American Impressionist, New York, 1994, p. 42) In the present work, Hassam captures a fleeting moment at one of Paris's famed street cafés. The work was likely first executed as a drawing, which was then published in the Paris section of the 1899 publication Three Cities by Childe Hassam. The artist would have then gone back in later to add color to the composition prior to its sale.
This work will be included in Stuart P. Feld's and Kathleen M. Burnside's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.
Executed in 1898, Outside the Café on the Grand Boulevard captures Childe Hassam's fascination with the unique metropolitan culture of Paris. As Ulrich W. Heisinger explains, "Hassam's greatest amusement was to wander about the streets of Paris in search of motifs for his paintings." (Childe Hassam: American Impressionist, New York, 1994, p. 42) In the present work, Hassam captures a fleeting moment at one of Paris's famed street cafés. The work was likely first executed as a drawing, which was then published in the Paris section of the 1899 publication Three Cities by Childe Hassam. The artist would have then gone back in later to add color to the composition prior to its sale.