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Lot 52
John Henry Twachtman(1853-1902)Road Scene, Cincinnati 13 1/2 x 23 3/4 in. (34.3 x 60.3 cm.)
18 November 2021, 14:00 EST
New YorkSold for US$40,312.50 inc. premium
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John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902)
Road Scene, Cincinnati
signed and dated 'J.H. Twachtman. Cin. 78.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
13 1/2 x 23 3/4 in. (34.3 x 60.3 cm.)
Painted in 1878.
signed and dated 'J.H. Twachtman. Cin. 78.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
13 1/2 x 23 3/4 in. (34.3 x 60.3 cm.)
Painted in 1878.
Footnotes
Provenance
The Closson Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Rhona A. (neé) Apfelbaum (1920-2007), Mystic, Connecticut, acquired from the above, by 1990.
Private collection, Westchester, New York, by 2003.
Sale, Shannon's, Mildford, Connecticut, May 6, 2004, lot 110, sold by the above.
Steve Brennen, York Harbor, Maine, acquired from the above.
Acquired from the above by the present owners, 2005.
Literature
L.N. Peters, J. Nelson, S. Parkes, John Twachtman (1853-1902): A "Painter's Painter," exhibition catalogue, New York, 2006, p. 38-9, fig. 31, illustrated.
The present work is recorded as OP.500 in the John Henry Twachtman Catalogue Raisonné, an online catalogue by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D., in collaboration with the Greenwich Historical Society, Greenwich, Connecticut. The catalogue raisonné is available at www.jhtwachtman.org.
In the summer of 1878, John Henry Twachtman returned to the United States following his first expedition to Europe; Road Scene, Cincinnati is the only known work John Twachtman executed in his hometown that summer. Dr. Lisa Peters has theorized that Twachtman may have created this work in response to the death of his father, Frederick Christian Twachtman, the year prior. Within this moody and atmospheric scene, a lone figure is traveling down a desolate road, devoid of other signs of life and filled with melancholy. At the horizon line, there are two dark shapes, which Dr. Peters has theorized as being symbolic of the gates of paradise from the Greek mythological story of Hercules.
