An Eye for Impressionism: Property from an Important American Estate
Frederick Carl Frieseke
1874 - 1939
Necklaces (Mahdah Reddin)
signed F.C. Frieseke. (lower right)
oil on canvas
31 ¾ by 31 ¾ in.
80.6 by 80.6 cm.
Executed circa 1926.
This painting will be included in the draft Frieseke Catalogue Raisonné, compiled by Nicholas Kilmer, the artist’s grandson, with the support of the Hollis Taggart Galleries. That draft is now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art.
Condition Report
Provenance
Macbeth Gallery, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1927)
Private Collection, Chicago
Campanile Galleries, Chicago
Private Collection, Marietta, Georgia
Mr. and Mrs. Haig Tashjian, Leonia, New Jersey (acquired by 1982)
Sterling Regal, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 25 May 1988, lot 33 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
Macbeth Gallery, Art Notes, New York, January 1927, no. 84, p. 1483, illustrated
Willa Cather, Alexander's Bridge, Boston, 1990, illustrated in color on the cover
Exhibited
Southampton, The Parrish Art Museum and South Carolina, Greenville County Museum of Art, American Realist and Impressionist Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Haig Tashjian, April 1982 - April 1984, fig. 17, pp. 33, 56, illustrated in color