Irises

Details

JOHN HENRY TWACHTMAN (1853-1902)
Irises
signed 'J.H. Twachtman-' (lower left)
watercolor and pastel on paper
17 ¼ x 13 ½ in. (43.8 x 34.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1890s

Provenance

Milch Galleries, New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Biggs, Middleton, Delaware (by 1983).
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York.
Ira and Nancy Koger (acquired from the above, 1984).
Acquired by the present owner, 1992.

Exhibited

Winter Park, Florida, Rollins College, George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Fine Arts Center, The Genteel Tradition: Impressionist and Realist Art from the Ira and Nancy Koger Collection in Celebration of the Centennial of Rollins College, November 1985-January 1986, pp. 84-85 and 93 (illustrated).
New York, Spanierman Gallery, In the Sunlight: The Floral and Figurative Art of J.H. Twachtman, May-June 1989, pp. 22, 92 and 93 (illustrated, pl. 19).

Further details

This work is included as number P.912 in the John Henry Twachtman Catalogue Raisonné (jhtwachtman.org/) by Dr. Lisa N. Peters in collaboration with the Greenwich Historical Society.

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Lot Essay

According to Lisa N. Peters, "Twachtman used pastel with gestural spontaneity in Irises, depicting the blossoms and stems of a cluster of the perennial multi-lobed flowers from a low vantage point. His close-up view of the flowers, along with a sense of their daytime growth, is suggestive of the images of the complex flower by Van Gogh such as Irises, 1889 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles). " (jhtwachtman.org)

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