MARSDEN HARTLEY (1877 - 1943) Mont Saint-Victoire, Afternoon.
Brush and ink with pencil on tan wove paper, 1928. Inscribed with the artist's name in black chalk, lower right. 560x760 mm; 22x30 inches.
Provenance Estate of the artist. Knoedler & Co., New York, circa 1944. Purchased from the above by Mary Turlay Robinson, New York, February 1945. Private collection. Christie's, New York, May 25, 1989, lot 354. Phyllis Hattis Fine Arts. Purchased from the above by private collection, 1996. Michael Altman Fine Art, New York. Private collection, 1997-2008. Christie's, New York, December, 4, 2008, lot 21. Michael Altman Fine Art, New York. Private collection, New York, 2014.
Exhibited Museum of Fine Arts Boston, February, 1997, T57 (label).
Literature E. McCausland, Elizabeth McCausland Papers, 1838-1995, bulk 1920-1960 Series 6: Marsden Hartley, 1900-1964 (Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.), Box 14, folder 42, frame 4.
Note This work is included by Gail R. Scott in the Marsden Hartley Legacy Project: Complete Paintings and Works on Paper with Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine.
In 1926, Marsden Hartley settled in Aix-en-Provence in the South of France to live and work. Following in the footsteps of Paul Cézanne, Hartley drew Mont Sainte-Victoire frequently. His painting series of the faceted towering formation borrow Cézanne's color palette and exaggerate his technique of constructive brushstrokes, taking these paintings in a new, distinctive direction.
