Lot 20
Mathias Joseph Alten (1871-1938)
Lot 20 Details
Mathias Joseph Alten (1871-1938), American
SPRING, 1922
Oil on canvas; titled to the stretcher, inscribed: “Alten” in blue crayon to the frame, with a small white label with red border inscribed in ink “3”, the label partially covering annotations to the frame verso “90... 20 x 24” in pencil; inscribed “15” in black crayon to the top of the frame and inscribed “Metal 31 48052” in pencil to the frame verso. Contained in the original Newcomb-Macklin, Chicago frame from 1922.
This lot will be included in James A. Straub’s “Mathias J. Alten Catalogue Raisonne”, currently in preparation.
20" x 24" — 50.8 x 61 cm.
Estimate $12,000-$18,000
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Provenance:
Acquired directly from the artist by Walter Clark, Grand Rapids, Michigan (as was the previous lot);
By descent to his wife, Thelma Clark, Port Credit, Ontario until her death in 2000;
Gifted to her nephew
Note:
James A. Straub comments on this painting: “The landscape, although unsigned, is quite typical of others Alten completed in Michigan.” Straub concludes that based upon the frame’s annotations and construction, that it is retained in the original Newcomb-Macklin of Chicago frame, ordered in 1922, likely ordered at the same time as the frame for “A Boy and His Horse at Valencia” (lot 19).
This oil painting hung in the Clark residence in Santa Barbara, California in the living room alongside the preceding lot, “A Boy and His Horse at Valencia”.
We would thank James A. Straub for his contribution to this catalogue. (Please see lot 19 for details of Straub’s research project)