Tropical Scene with Two Figures in a Rowboat

Details

MARTIN JOHNSON HEADE (1819-1904)
Tropical Scene with Two Figures in a Rowboat
signed and dated 'MJ Heade 72' (lower right)
oil on canvas
10 ¼ x 14 in. (26 x 35.6 cm.)
Painted in 1872.

Provenance

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, by 1995.
Eaton Fine Art, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1997.

Literature

T.E. Stebbins, Jr. The Life and Work of Martin Johnson Heade: A Critical Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven, Connecticut, 2000, pp. 256-57, no. 220, illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., Selected American Master Paintings, 1764-1964, 1995, n.p., no. 5, illustrated.
West Palm Beach, Florida, Eaton Fine Art, Martin Johnson Heade, A Survey: 1840-1900, 1996, pp. 30-31, illustrated (as Tropical Scene).

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Lot Essay

The present work was likely inspired by Heade's fascination and documentation of the tropical terrain he encountered on his many travels. The artist journeyed to Brazil between 1863 and 1865 and made subsequent trips to Nicaragua in 1866 and Colombia, Panama and Jamaica in 1870.

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