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Auction archive: Lot number 29

Robert Havell, Jr.

Estimate
US$20,000 - US$30,000
Price realised:
US$16,250
Auction archive: Lot number 29

Robert Havell, Jr.

Estimate
US$20,000 - US$30,000
Price realised:
US$16,250
Beschreibung:

Robert Havell Jr. American, 1793-1878 Rainbow over the Hudson with High Tor and Croton Point in the Distance Oil on canvas 21 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, inventory no. 120568.0001 Exhibited: Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Light and Landscape: Hudson River School Paintings from Private Collections, May 9-Jun. 28, 1981 Nyack, NY, The Edward Hopper Landmark Preservation Foundation, 19th Century Painters and Paintings of Rockland County, N.Y., Sep. 23-Oct. 21, 1984 (as Rainbow over the Hudson) This majestic view is ripe with promise, a double rainbow emerging from storm clouds lifting in the distance, revealing High Tor at left and Croton Point at center right. The view was a familiar one for Havell, who had purchased land in Sing-Sing (now Ossining), and built a home, Rocky Mount, into which his family moved in 1842. Many of Havell's most celebrated works depict scenes in this general vicinity. Indeed, his painting Hudson River North to Croton Point [Collection Ossining Historical Society] captures a similar vista seen by the evanescent glow of sunset, which includes a seated figure of a young man, rather than the standing figure overlooking the same view in the present work. The cows at pasture and the sailboats wending their way through the placid waters of the Hudson River, along with the dramatic double rainbow, suggest the calm after a storm, and the rising optimism of a young republic. C
Wax lining. Frame rubbing. Flattened pronounced craquelure. Possible 2-inch repaired tear in sky at upper right, with approximately 4 x 4-inch area of inpaint. Scattered inpaint into craquelure, most notably in area between the two rainbows. Apparent scattered inpaint in the sky. Dense varnish layer making it difficult to detect further restoration under UV light.

Auction archive: Lot number 29
Auction:
Datum:
19 Nov 2012
Auction house:
Doyle New York - Auctioneers & Appraisers
East 87th Street 75
New York, NY 10128
United States
info@doyle.com
+1 (0)212 4272730
Beschreibung:

Robert Havell Jr. American, 1793-1878 Rainbow over the Hudson with High Tor and Croton Point in the Distance Oil on canvas 21 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches Provenance: Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, inventory no. 120568.0001 Exhibited: Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, Light and Landscape: Hudson River School Paintings from Private Collections, May 9-Jun. 28, 1981 Nyack, NY, The Edward Hopper Landmark Preservation Foundation, 19th Century Painters and Paintings of Rockland County, N.Y., Sep. 23-Oct. 21, 1984 (as Rainbow over the Hudson) This majestic view is ripe with promise, a double rainbow emerging from storm clouds lifting in the distance, revealing High Tor at left and Croton Point at center right. The view was a familiar one for Havell, who had purchased land in Sing-Sing (now Ossining), and built a home, Rocky Mount, into which his family moved in 1842. Many of Havell's most celebrated works depict scenes in this general vicinity. Indeed, his painting Hudson River North to Croton Point [Collection Ossining Historical Society] captures a similar vista seen by the evanescent glow of sunset, which includes a seated figure of a young man, rather than the standing figure overlooking the same view in the present work. The cows at pasture and the sailboats wending their way through the placid waters of the Hudson River, along with the dramatic double rainbow, suggest the calm after a storm, and the rising optimism of a young republic. C
Wax lining. Frame rubbing. Flattened pronounced craquelure. Possible 2-inch repaired tear in sky at upper right, with approximately 4 x 4-inch area of inpaint. Scattered inpaint into craquelure, most notably in area between the two rainbows. Apparent scattered inpaint in the sky. Dense varnish layer making it difficult to detect further restoration under UV light.

Auction archive: Lot number 29
Auction:
Datum:
19 Nov 2012
Auction house:
Doyle New York - Auctioneers & Appraisers
East 87th Street 75
New York, NY 10128
United States
info@doyle.com
+1 (0)212 4272730
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