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Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) Tree Sketch (Study for Peaceful Valley (Homestead), 1952) 5 1/4 x 5 3/8in (Executed circa 1950.) image 1
Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) Tree Sketch (Study for Peaceful Valley (Homestead), 1952) 5 1/4 x 5 3/8in (Executed circa 1950.) image 2
Lot 49

Maxfield Parrish
(1870-1966)
Tree Sketch (Study for Peaceful Valley (Homestead), 1952) 5 1/4 x 5 3/8in

22 November 2016, 14:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$9,375 inc. premium

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Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966)

Tree Sketch (Study for Peaceful Valley (Homestead), 1952)
signed with initials 'M∙P' (lower right)
watercolor and pencil on paper
5 1/4 x 5 3/8in
Executed circa 1950.

Footnotes

Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above.
with Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts.
Alma Gilbert-Smith, La Galeria, San Mateo, California, acquired from the above, 1974.
Sale, Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, May 8, 1998, lot 246.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

The present work retains a water color illustration on the reverse of the sheet completed by the artist's eldest son, Dillwyn Parrish, at approximately 12 years of age. According to the pencil inscription penned by the artist's younger son, Maxfield Parrish, Jr., this aquarelle was one of the first watercolor lessons the artist gave his young children on 'how to lay a wash'.

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