Sep 21, 2010 - Sale 2222

Sale 2222 - Lot 64

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
SAMUEL PALMER
The Cypress Grove.

Etching, circa 1880. 132x188 mm; 5 1/4x7 3/8 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Fourth state (of 4). Partial Whatman Turkey Mill watermark. A brilliant, luminous impression on cream laid paper.

According to Lister, since the plate was signed already in the first state, the artist had finished most (or all) of the work on it that he had intended, though in later states some work was added by his son, A.H. Palmer. Lister 15.