Details
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)
View Near Silver City, Sierra Nevada, California
signed 'Bierstadt' (lower left)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
1334 x 1734 in. (34.9 x 45.1 cm.)
Painted in 1872.
Provenance
Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York, by 1968.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 19 March 1969, lot 28.
The North Point Gallery, San Francisco, California.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.
Literature
M. Albronda, J.T. Driesbach, Art of California, vol. III, Napa, California, 1990, pp. 6, 53-54, pl. I, illustrated.
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We would like to thank Melissa Webster Speidel, President of the Bierstadt Foundation and Director of the Albert Bierstadt catalogue raisonné project, for her assistance in the cataloguing of this lot.

Albert Bierstadt traveled through the Silver City area of the Sierra Nevada mountains in May, July and October of 1872.

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