Lot 1531
Lot 1531
Joseph Austin Pennell (1857-1926)

Madison Avenue

Price Realised USD 27,500
Estimate
USD 1,000 - USD 1,500
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Joseph Austin Pennell (1857-1926)

Madison Avenue

Price Realised USD 27,500
Price Realised USD 27,500
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Joseph Austin Pennell (1857-1926)
Madison Avenue
inscribed with title (on the reverse)
charcoal on paper laid down on paperboard
11¼ x 8½ in. (28.6 x 21.6 cm.)
Executed in 1909
Provenance
Frederick Keppel & Company, New York.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., acquired from the above, 1926.
Estate of the above.
Nelson A. Rockefeller, David Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller III, and Laurance Rockefeller, 1963.
Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1984.
Literature
J.C. Van Dyke, The New New York: A Commentary on the Place and the People, New York, 1909, p. 116, no. 25, illustrated (as Looking Down Madison Ave.).
J. Barnitz, et al., The David and Peggy Rockefeller Collection: Art of the Western Hemisphere, vol. II, New York, 1988, p. 65.
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