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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
FRANCIS AUGUSTUS SILVA (1835-1886)
Coastal Sunset
Details
FRANCIS AUGUSTUS SILVA (1835-1886)
Coastal Sunset
signed and dated 'F.A. Silva. 74' (lower right)
oil on canvas
14 x 26 in. (35.6 x 66 cm.)
Painted in 1874.
Coastal Sunset
signed and dated 'F.A. Silva. 74' (lower right)
oil on canvas
14 x 26 in. (35.6 x 66 cm.)
Painted in 1874.
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 25 May 1988, lot 21.
Alexander Gallery, New York.
Sotheby's, New York, 30 November 1989, lot 17.
(Probably) Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Alexander Gallery, New York.
Sotheby's, New York, 30 November 1989, lot 17.
(Probably) Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
D.C. Miller, ed., American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature, New Haven, Connecticut, 1993, pp. 186-87, fig. 9.2, illustrated (as Seascape at Sunset).
Exhibited
M.D. Mitchell, J. Wilmerding, Francis A. Silva (1835-1886): In His Own Light, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2002, pp. 86, 129, pl. 20, illustrated.
Brought to you by
Quincie Dixon
Associate Specialist, Head of Sale