Aaron Anderson
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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, DALLAS, TEXAS
Lot 25¤
Guy Carleton Wiggins(1883-1962)Looking Downtown 5th Avenue at 53rd Street 20 x 15 7/8in (50.8 x 40.3cm)
20 May 2021, 16:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$22,812.50 inc. premium
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Guy Carleton Wiggins (1883-1962)
Looking Downtown 5th Avenue at 53rd Street
signed 'Guy Wiggins. NA.' (lower right) and inscribed with title and signed again (on the reverse)
oil on canvasboard
20 x 15 7/8in (50.8 x 40.3cm)
signed 'Guy Wiggins. NA.' (lower right) and inscribed with title and signed again (on the reverse)
oil on canvasboard
20 x 15 7/8in (50.8 x 40.3cm)
Footnotes
Provenance
The artist.
Private collection, New York, (possibly) acquired from the above.
Private collection, New York, son of the above, by descent, 1947.
Private collection, Aventura, Florida, wife of the above, by descent, 1998.
By descent to the present owners, 2020.
Please note this work will be offered without reserve.
Beginning in the 1920s, Guy Carleton Wiggins turned his works' focus to depicting snow scenes in New York City, a subject which garnered great popularity and commercial success for the artist. Looking Downtown 5th Avenue at 53rd Street is a large-scale example of one of Wiggins' favored scenes in midtown Manhattan. At the right of the composition is a receding line of skyscrapers, including 754 Park Avenue with its identifiable green roof that was home to Bergdorf Goodman. The Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church and the Peninsula Hotel are at center, seen through a stormy haze in the background. The American flags adorning the buildings and the brightly colored cars speeding down 5th Avenue are vibrantly contrast against the muted buildings and stormy sky. Flecks of falling snow painted in Impressionistic brushwork envelop the canvas and capture the fleeting atmosphere of the scene.