Pre-Valentine Wonderful Sale
Lot 147:
Description
Keywords: Mountain landscape, Western Landscape, grand manner vista, waterfalls, mountainous terrain, river valley, western expansion imagery, signed painting, , American landscape tradition
NO RESERVE Albert Bierstadt oil on canvas dramatic mountain landscape with waterfalls painting, 19th-century American school. Signed A Bierstadt and dated 1865 lower left.NOTE: There are a number of versions of this work recognized including the very much larger variant of this painting that is held by the metropolitan museum of art measuring over 6 ft in height and 10 ft in width.
Likely the most famous and financially successful late 19th-century painter of the American western landscape, Albert Bierstadt created grandiose, dramatic scenes of the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevadas that lured many people to visit those sites. He was also one of the first artists to use a camera to record landscape views.
Bio:His oil paintings, many of them huge, were the ultimate expression of the popular 19th-century Romanticism. But his reputation diminished when public taste in art changed dramatically and replaced Realism and Romanticism with Impressionism and when transcontinental railway travel revealed that the West looked nothing like his idealized paintings.
Measurement: Art: 36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm.), Frame: 46 1/2 x 58 1/2 in. (118.1 x 148.6 cm.) Approx
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