Art + Antiques: Featuring The Birger Sandzen Collection
Sat, Nov 23, 2019 01:00AM EST
Lot 153
Birger Sandzen 'Gran Quivira' Pencil-Signed Lithograph
Sold for
$700
Bid Increments
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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 |
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Birger Sandzen
(Swedish-American, 1871-1954)
Gran Quivira, 1919
Lithograph on paper
Edition of 50
16" x 22"
A pencil-signed and titled New Mexican panorama framed by trees in the foreground. In a wooden frame that measures 24 7/8" x 30 1/8".
"We [Sandzen with Marsden Hartley and BJO Nordfeldt] made a 400-mile trip in the wilderness which took us four days, and saw some of the most picturesque Indian villages and ruined cities that died of fear--Aba, Cuari, and Gran Quivira--abandoned by the Pueblo Indians about 250 years ago after repeated attacks by the Plains Indians. The trip was delightful beyond words." (Birger Sandzen in a letter to Raymond Johnson, 1919, as detailed in Lindquist)
Literature: Charles Pelham Greenough, The Graphic Work of Birger Sandzen, Birger Sandzen Memorial Foundation, 2001, L - 43
Emory Lindquist, Birger Sandzen: An Illustrated Biography, Birger Sandzen Memorial Foundation, 1993
Framed to archival standards with an acid free mat, museum mount, and conservation glass, by the American Legacy Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri.
Not removed from the frame. Appears to be in very good condition. A very clean sheet, with gentle rippling.
(Swedish-American, 1871-1954)
Gran Quivira, 1919
Lithograph on paper
Edition of 50
16" x 22"
A pencil-signed and titled New Mexican panorama framed by trees in the foreground. In a wooden frame that measures 24 7/8" x 30 1/8".
"We [Sandzen with Marsden Hartley and BJO Nordfeldt] made a 400-mile trip in the wilderness which took us four days, and saw some of the most picturesque Indian villages and ruined cities that died of fear--Aba, Cuari, and Gran Quivira--abandoned by the Pueblo Indians about 250 years ago after repeated attacks by the Plains Indians. The trip was delightful beyond words." (Birger Sandzen in a letter to Raymond Johnson, 1919, as detailed in Lindquist)
Literature: Charles Pelham Greenough, The Graphic Work of Birger Sandzen, Birger Sandzen Memorial Foundation, 2001, L - 43
Emory Lindquist, Birger Sandzen: An Illustrated Biography, Birger Sandzen Memorial Foundation, 1993
Framed to archival standards with an acid free mat, museum mount, and conservation glass, by the American Legacy Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri.
Condition
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