The
following description has been prepared entirely by the current owner, Roberts
S. Fastov, Esq., and, at the collector’s request, has not been edited by Sloans
& Kenyon
Note 1) The following very
impressive Davis biographical materials, including the prizes and medals he
won, are based on the Askart.com website
“Born in Amesbury, Massachusetts,
Charles Davis became one of the more recognized of the Tonalist and
Impressionist painters in America. He was also the leading member of the colony
of artists who gathered at Mystic, Connecticut. His early landscapes that gave
him the reputation for Tonalism and that resulted from his visit to Barbizon,
France, depicted every hour from dawn to sunset with a subtlety of form and
color.”
It is this combination of Davis’
tonalism and Barbizon school painting style that is clearly manifested in this
auction lot. Davis won the following prizes and medals: Honorable Mention
(Paris Salon, 1887); Silver Medal (Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889); Palmer
Prize (Art Institute of Chicago,1890);Medal (Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic‚s
Association, Boston, 1890); Medal (Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893); Grand
Gold Medal (American Art Association, New York, 1896); Cash Prize (American Art
Association, 1897); Potter Palmer Prize (Chicago Art Institute, 1898); Bronze
Medal (Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900); Lippincott Prize(Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1901); Silver Medal (Pan-American
Exposition, Buffalo, 1901); Silver Medal (Universal Exposition, St. Louis,
1904); Silver Medal (Universal Exposition International, 1910); Gold Medal
(Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915); Second W. A. Clark Prize and
Corcoran Silver Medal (Corcoran Gallery, Washington, 1920); Saltus Medal
(National Academy of Design, 1921).
See Askart.com for the 31 museums
having Davis works in their collections, including a significant number of the
leading U.S. art museums, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art, all of NYC, National
Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum, all of Washington, D.C., Art
Institute of Chicago (Illinois), Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh/Carnegie
Institute (Pennsylvania), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Massachusetts), Los
Angeles County Museum of Art (California),Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art (Connecticut)
Note 2)
The following auction records regarding Davis' sales warrant the conclusion
that the presale estimate of $7,000-$10,000
is reasonable and justifiable. The
highest auction price ever paid for a Davis' painting was $92,750 on 9/24/2001,
entitled "Summer Clouds," which was atypically huge. However, the
reader will see that that the Davis price records below establish a very strong
and lengthy price record for paintings focusing on skies that are overcast,
gray and/or dark and feature scenes at dusk, sunset and early in the evening, in
a manner very similar to “When Evening Shadows Fall Apace,” which readily and amply support such
estimate.
Title/Subject: Afternoon in Early Winter Signed. Oil on canvas. 17 in. x 21 in. sold for $18,750 on 05/15/2012 at Heritage auctions, Dallas, TX
Title/Subject: Winter Twilight Signed.
Oil on canvas. 12 in. x 18 in. sold for $35,000 on 09/28/2010 at Christie’s, NY
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