Sep 21, 2023 - Sale 2645

Sale 2645 - Lot 37

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
AUGUSTUS VINCENT TACK
Child Collecting Flowers.

Oil on canvas, circa 1900. 1045x635 mm; 41x25 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto.

Provenance: Private collection, Massachusetts.

Scenes of children, at times including the artist's son, Robert Fuller Tack, who appears to be the model in the current painting, gathering flowers were among Tack's (1870-1949) popular figural subjects. One painting, entitled Child Bringing Flowers, was shown at the Detroit Museum of Art (the precursor to the Detroit Institute of Arts), February 23-March 10, 1911, alongside works by Hermann Dudley Murphy and William Baxter Closson. The exhibition traveled to the City Art Museum of St. Louis in the spring of 1911.