Lot 12
- 12
William Michael Harnett 1848 - 1892
Estimate
70,000 - 90,000 USD
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Description
- William Michael Harnett
- Still Life with Letter to Mr. William Taggart, Esq.
- signed with the artist's monogrammed signature WMHarnett and dated 1878, l.r.
- oil on canvas
- 8 by 12 in.
- (20.3 by 30.5 cm)
Provenance
William Korner, Pennsylvania
Mr. and Mrs. Murry McClung, Los Angeles, California (sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, April 17, 1975, lot 4, illustrated)
Lano Art Association, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1980
Mr. and Mrs. Murry McClung, Los Angeles, California (sold: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, April 17, 1975, lot 4, illustrated)
Lano Art Association, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1980
Exhibited
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968-1974
Literature
Alfred Frankenstein, After the Hunt: William Harnett and Other American Still Life Painters 1870-1900, Los Angeles, California, 1969, pp. 167-68, no. 29c