Dec 10, 2019 - Sale 2526

Sale 2526 - Lot 108

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY.
Young Lovers at the U.S. Naval Academy. Published illustration for U.S. Naval Academy print, 1914. Watercolor and gouache on paper mounted to stretched canvas. 507x407 mm; 20x16 inches. Signed "Howard Chandler Christy" and dated 1914 in lower left image. Canvas separated from stretcher on 3 sides; drip marks and some foxing at left. Framed.

Additional Details

accompanied by a study for another u.s. naval academy print, which was also published in the 1914 U.S. Naval Academy yearbook, "The Lucky Bag," Vol. XXI (Philadelphia: Wm. H. Hoskins Company, 1914, page 13). While it contains some hand work by Christy, it was reworked by printer at the time of publication.