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Lot 29

Winslow Homer
(1836-1910)
Boardwalk Sketch, Atlantic City, New Jersey 3 3/8 x 5in

22 November 2016, 14:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$6,250 inc. premium

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Winslow Homer (1836-1910)

Boardwalk Sketch, Atlantic City, New Jersey
inscribed '.25 cts lesson' (upper left) and 'One two - one two / one two - one two / Boardwalk taught in ten minutes' (lower center)
pencil on paper
3 3/8 x 5in
Executed in 1906.

Footnotes

Provenance
The artist.
Charles S. Homer, Jr., by bequest from the above, 1910.
Mrs. Charles S. Homer, Jr., by bequest from the above, 1917.
Arthur P. Homer, by bequest from the above, 1937.
Lois Homer Graham (Mrs. Horace Graham), Poughkeepsie, New York, probably 1940.
with Joan Michaelman, Ltd., circa 1978.
with Steven Straw Company, Inc., Newburyport, Massachusetts, circa 1978.
Sale, Phillips, Boston, May 2, 1980, lot 44.
Ellyn Wolfe Fine Arts Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1990.

Literature
G. Hendricks, The Life and Work of Winslow Homer, New York, 1979, p. 269, no. 365, illustrated.
L. Goodrich and A.B. Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, vol. V, New York, 2005, p. 372, no. 1762-d, illustrated.

The Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel, celebrated for its Spanish baroque design, appears in this illustration at upper left. Built between 1902 and 1906, this historic hotel stood on the Atlantic City boardwalk in New Jersey until it was demolished in 1978.

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