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Live Auction

The Fine Sale - Day Two

Sun, Apr 28, 2019 11:00AM EDT
Lot 525

Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904): Boston Harbor

Estimate: $1,500 - $3,000
Sold for

Bid Increments

Price Bid Increment
$0 $25
$200 $50
$500 $100
$3,000 $250
$5,000 $500
$10,000 $1,000
$30,000 $2,500
$100,000 $5,000

Pencil on paper, 1858, unsigned, titled lower right, inscribed 'My great uncle Martin Johnson Heade drew this sketch in 1858/Elsie Heade Housley' and with the Walter Baum Galleries inkstamp on the reverse.

6 1/2 x 10 in. (sheet), 10 3/4 x 16 1/4 in. (frame).

Sold Christie's, New York, September 27, 1985, Lot 3.

Property from the Estate of Estelle P. Riback, New York

Condition

Mat and light-staining, surface soiling and scattered foxmarks. Remains of old glue at places at the reverse of the sheet edges.