Live Auction 2899American Art
Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
Lot 78

Childe Hassam (1859-1935)

The Blue Sea and the Bather

Closed19 November 2014

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Childe Hassam (1859-1935)
The Blue Sea and the Bather
signed and dated 'Childe Hassam 1906' with crescent device (lower left)
oil on canvas
19½ x 21¼ in. (49.5 x 54 in.)

Alexander Morten, New York.
Estate of the above.
American Art Association, New York, 91 Paintings from the Collections of the late Alexander Morten, Frank R. Lawrence, and James S. Inglis, 29 January 1919, lot 55.
Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries, New York, acquired from the above.
Stephen C. Clark, New York.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1930.
M.L. Seidman, New York, acquired from the above, 1936.
By descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

We would like to thank the Hassam catalogue raisonné committee for their assistance with cataloguing this work.

This painting will be included in Stuart P. Feld and Kathleen M. Burnside's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work.