Albert Bierstadt

Mount Baker

Live auction begins on:

January 24, 07:00 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Bid

350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, Canada

Albert Bierstadt

1830 - 1902

Mount Baker

signed ABierstadt (lower left)

oil on canvas

30 ¼ by 44 in.

76.8 by 112 cm.

Executed in 1890-91

This work will be included in the forthcoming Albert Bierstadt catalogue raisonné database. We thank Melissa Webster Speidel, President of the Bierstadt Foundation and Director of the Albert Bierstadt catalogue raisonné project, for her assistance cataloguing this lot.

Please refer to sothebys.com for the updated title of this lot.

(possibly) James J. Hill, St. Paul (acquired directly from the artist)

George Stephen, Montreal and London (possibly acquired as a gift from the above in 1891)

George Stephen Cantlie, Montreal (acquired by descent from the above circa 1900)

Acquired by descent from the above circa 1957 by the present owner

(probably) Allan Pringle, "Albert Bierstadt in Canada", The American Art Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, Winter 1985, p. 25

(probably) New York, Brooklyn Museum; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Albert Bierstadt: Art & Enterprise, 1991-92, p. 254