Jun 04, 2015 - Sale 2386

Sale 2386 - Lot 142

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
GUSTAVE CIMIOTTI
Rockport, Maine.

Oil on board. 405x505 mm; 15 7/8x19 7/8 inches. Signed in oil, lower right recto, and titled in white crayon and annotated in charcoal, verso.

Cimiotti (1875-1969) was a first generation American artist whose family had immigrated from Italy in the mid-1800s. In his teens, Cimiotti was a talented musician and prodigious draughtsman. He studied abroad at the Académie Julian in Paris, but never fully adopted French Impressionism like so many fellow American artists of his day. Cimiotti had a studio in New York for decades at 51 West 10th Street, where Winslow Homer and William Merritt Chase also worked, and it is with the bold, colorful style of these American masters that his work shares a greater affinity.