Sale 12186
New York
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20 September 2016
PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT NEW YORK COLLECTOR
Price realised
USD 16,250
Estimate
J. Quigg, 19th Century View of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, circa 1870 signed J, Quigg, lower right oil on board Sight 22 ¼ x 30 ¾ in.
Provenance
Leonardo L. Beans, Trenton, New Jersey Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 30 April - 3 May 1980, lot 1136 Thomas G. Rizzo, New York Sold, Sotheby's, New York, 29 April 1982, lot 23
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Exhibited
Williamsburg, Virginia, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, The Folk Artist Looks at the Civil War, August - November 1960. New York, Museum of American Folk Art, Celebrate the Hudson, October - November 1980.
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