For all you landscape painters, collectors, and connoisseurs out there who happen to have a half million or more lying around, I wanted to tell you about some of the amazing landscape works for sale in the "Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures" auction opening today at Christie's, in New York City.
Although the show is comprised of figurative, still life, and sculptural work, a good majority of the paintings for sale are landscapes (including figure-in-the-landscapes) from some of the finest painters in history. Gems in the 179-piece collection include paintings from Albert Bierstadt, John Leslie Breck, John Gamble, Childe Hassam, Frank Tenney Johnson, Edgar Payne, Edward Henry Pothast, Maurice Brazik Prendergast, Edmund Tarbell, and Andrew Wyeth.
Buried in between paintings selling into the millions from deceased artists is the one living painter in the whole lot-our very own landscape legend Clyde Aspevig, whose Frozen Stream painting (# 79) starts bidding at $25,000 to $35,000.
How much do you think Christie’s would auction off a painting that’s just dappled light on water? No boats, no mountains, no figures. Just dappled light all over the canvas? It’s all I want, Alli!!!
Daybreak is gorgeous, by the way!