Lot 222
Lot 222
Property from the Jay P. Altmayer Family Collection
William Aiken Walker (1838-1921)

New Orleans Levee Scene

    Price Realised USD 43,750
    Estimate
    USD 5,000 - USD 7,000
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    William Aiken Walker (1838-1921)

    New Orleans Levee Scene

    Price Realised USD 43,750
    Price Realised USD 43,750
    Details
    William Aiken Walker (1838-1921)
    New Orleans Levee Scene
    signed with conjoined initials 'WAWalker.' (lower right)
    oil on copper plate
    11¾ in. (29.8 cm.) diameter
    Executed circa 1884-85.
    Literature
    A.P. Trovaioli, R.B. Toledano, William Aiken Walker: Southern Genre Painter, Gretna, Louisiana, 2008, p. 34, fig. 4, illustrated.
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    Lot Essay

    This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by John Fowler. This work was probably produced as a momento of the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, held in New Orleans in 1884.
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