ALBERT BIERSTADT
American, 1830-1902
Sunset – San Francisco Bay
Signed ABierstadt
Oil on paper laid down on board
13½ x 19 inches (34.3 x 48.3 cm)
Framed: 20 x 26 inches (50.8 x 66 cm)
We would like to thank Melissa Webster Speidel, President of the Bierstadt Foundation and Director of the Albert Bierstadt
catalogue raisonné proect, for her assistance in cataloguing this work. She notes that this work is similar to Bierstadt's
Landscape with Sunset Reflecting in the Sky [Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK] where "again the sun is low and the sky is aflame with color."
This work is included in the Albert Bierstadt database being compiled in preparation for a catalogue raisonné of the artist's paintings.
Provenance
Charles Mongeon, Oregon, by 1915
Jack Mongeon, Oregon, 1915 (by descent)
Camille Mongeon, Oregon, 2015 (by descent)
Bloomsbury Fine Art & Antiques, Portland, Oregon
Acquired from the above, 2022
ALBERT BIERSTADT, Landscape with Sunset Reflecting in the Sky
Oil on paper, 19 x 24½ inches
[Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma]
$75,000