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Day Two - Lots 512-1170

Lot 4

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HENDRIK WILLEM MESDAG (Dutch 1831-1915)
Terugkeer van de vissersvloot(Return of the Fishing Fleet) - circa 1900
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right "H.W. Mesdag"
24 inches x 51.5 inches (61 x 130.5 cm)

Estimate: $60,000 - 90,000 € 52,800 - 79,200

Price Realized: $100,000.00

Provenance:

Sotheby’s London, sale of October 10, 1984, lot number 23
With noted paintings dealer Pieter A. Scheen, The Haag, Netherlands
Acquired by the present owner from Scheen in circa 1987

Literature:

Sotheby’s London auction catalog, sale of October 10, 1984, Nineteenth Century European Paintings, page 11, lot number 23, illustrated.

Poort, Johann, Hendrick Willem Mesdag (1831-1915) Oeuvrecatalogus, CIP-GEGEVENS KONINKLIJKE BIBLIOTHEEK DEN HAAG, (The Haag, Netherlands), 1989, pg. 318 and 316, illustrated twice

Exhibited:

Probably 1902, The Haag, Netherlands, under the title Terugkeer der Visschersvloot and as number 73 *

* Poort, Johann, Hendrick Willem Mesdag (1831-1915) Oeuvrecatalogus, CIP-GEGEVENS KONINKLIJKE BIBLIOTHEEK DEN HAAG, (The Haag, Netherlands), 1989, page 532 of the chronological exhibition history as assembled by Professor W. Martin (1876-1956).

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World Treasures: Important Russian, Asian, European & American Fine Art

May 24-25, 2016

Beginning at 9:00 AM daily

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