Art + Antiques: Featuring The Birger Sandzen Collection
Sat, Nov 23, 2019 01:00AM EST
Lot 7
Birger Sandzen 'Colorado Pines' Signed Lithograph
Sold for
$1,200
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| $500 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $5,000 | $250 |
| $10,000 | $500 |
| $20,000 | $1,000 |
| $50,000 | $2,500 |
| $75,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
Birger Sandzen
(Swedish-American, 1871-1954)
Colorado Pines, 1916
Lithograph on paper
Edition of 50
14 3/4" x 11"
The first print created by Birger Sandzen, a pencil-signed and titled lithographic view in Boulder, Colorado. Pencil-signed and titled, on watermarked Etruria laid paper, in a frame that measures 23 5/8" x 19 1/4".
"I have done two experiments in lithography and I am glad to say they are a perfect success. Carl Smalley, a good friend from McPherson, has been after me a long time to do some work of this kind. When I did not get started quickly enough, he bought an outfit of lithographic crayons and sent it to me. I drew two landscapes-- Colorado Pines and Dry Creek, sent them... to a lithographic printing house in Philadelphia... and made proofs, which I received yesterday." (Birger Sandzen, 1916 letter to Evelynn Johnson, as detailed in Lindquist)
Literature: Charles Pelham Greenough, The Graphic Work of Birger Sandzen, Birger Sandzen Memorial Foundation, 2001, L - 1
Emory Lindquist, Birger Sandzen: An Illustrated Biography, Birger Sandzen Memorial Foundation, 1993
Not removed from the frame. Appears to be in very good condition, with minimal toning to a clean sheet.
(Swedish-American, 1871-1954)
Colorado Pines, 1916
Lithograph on paper
Edition of 50
14 3/4" x 11"
The first print created by Birger Sandzen, a pencil-signed and titled lithographic view in Boulder, Colorado. Pencil-signed and titled, on watermarked Etruria laid paper, in a frame that measures 23 5/8" x 19 1/4".
"I have done two experiments in lithography and I am glad to say they are a perfect success. Carl Smalley, a good friend from McPherson, has been after me a long time to do some work of this kind. When I did not get started quickly enough, he bought an outfit of lithographic crayons and sent it to me. I drew two landscapes-- Colorado Pines and Dry Creek, sent them... to a lithographic printing house in Philadelphia... and made proofs, which I received yesterday." (Birger Sandzen, 1916 letter to Evelynn Johnson, as detailed in Lindquist)
Literature: Charles Pelham Greenough, The Graphic Work of Birger Sandzen, Birger Sandzen Memorial Foundation, 2001, L - 1
Emory Lindquist, Birger Sandzen: An Illustrated Biography, Birger Sandzen Memorial Foundation, 1993
Condition
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