Live Auction 21605The Ann & Gordon Getty Collection: Volume 2 | Old Master, 19th and 20th Century Paintings, Day Sale
CHILDE HASSAM (1859-1935)
Lot 156

CHILDE HASSAM (1859-1935)

Gate of the Alhambra

Closed21 October 2022

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CHILDE HASSAM (1859-1935)
Gate of the Alhambra
signed with artist's crescent device and dated 'Childe Hassam./1883' (lower left)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
19 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (50.2 x 31.8 cm.)
Executed in 1883

George C. Calvert, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Private collection, by descent, circa early 1950s.
Sotheby's, New York, 29 November 1990, lot 49, sold by the above.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Specialist note

The present work is part of a group of watercolors Childe Hassam executed during his first trip through Europe in 1883. Executed in Spain, Gate of the Alhambra explores the ornamental design of the Puerta del Vino—one of the Granada palace's oldest Islamic arches—and exhibits the artist's skillful spontaneity afforded by the medium.