Lot Essay
The present work relates to Bierstadt's larger oil of the same location, Clear Lake, California (Christie's, New York, 21 November 2017, lot 46) now in a private collection.
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Clear Lake, California
Details
ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830-1902)
Clear Lake, California
signed with conjoined initials 'AB' (lower right)
oil on board
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1880.
Clear Lake, California
signed with conjoined initials 'AB' (lower right)
oil on board
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1880.
Provenance
Private collection, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1970s.
By descent to the present owner.
By descent to the present owner.
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.
Brought to you by
Tylee Abbott
Vice President, Head of American Art