Robert Frederick Blum

Lot 57: Robert Frederick Blum (1857-1903)

Name: Robert Frederick Blum (1857-1903)
Brand: Christie's
SKU: 9b846ec57a

Est: $180,000 USD - $240,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USMay 18, 2011

Item Overview

Description

Robert Frederick Blum (1857-1903)
The Picture Book
oil on panel
6¾ x 10½ in. (17.1 x 26.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1890.

Artist or Maker

Robert Frederick Blum

Exhibited

Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Warner Collection, September 20, 1997-January 25, 1998.

Literature

F.D. Hill, "The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation," Antiques Magazine, November 1986, p. 1043, pl. xii, illustrated.
D.P. Curry, et al., American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from the Warner Collection, exhibition catalogue, Richmond, Virginia, 1997, pp. 64-65, illustrated.
T. Armstrong, ed., An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Fine and Decorative Arts, Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, New York, 2001, pp. 132-33, illustrated.

Provenance

George Ablah Collection, Kansas.
[With]Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1985.

Notes

Property from The Westervelt Company, formerly The Gulf States Paper Corporation

Robert Frederick Blum (1857-1903)
The Picture Book
oil on panel
6¾ x 10½ in. (17.1 x 26.7 cm.)
Painted circa 1890.

Auction Details

Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture

Christie's

May 18, 2011, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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