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Lot 40

Albert Bierstadt
(1830-1902)
Figure on Horseback 10 3/4 x 9in

22 May 2019, 16:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$40,075 inc. premium

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Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)

Figure on Horseback
signed with conjoined initials 'ABierstadt' (lower left)
oil on paper laid down on board
10 3/4 x 9in
Painted circa 1859.

Footnotes

Provenance
Ellen Messer Seabrook, Washington, Connecticut and New York.
By descent to the present owner.

We wish to thank Melissa Speidel of the Albert Bierstadt catalogue raisonné project, for her assistance in cataloguing this lot. This work is included in the database being compiled for her forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.

A similar work on paper by Albert Bierstadt that also depicts a mounted figure is entitled Mounted Trapper, which is in the collection of Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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