Sunset on the Coast

Provenance

Helen M. de Kay, New York, New York

Sale, MacDougall’s, London, England, July 7, 2011, lot 79

Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above

Private collection, New York, New York, acquired from above, 2011

Exhibited

Raydon Gallery, New York, New York, American Scene: A Bicentennial Exhibit, 1975

Related Works

Sunset, Grand Manan, 1877, oil on canvas, 18 x 30¼ inches; Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts

Coastal Scene, oil on panel, 10 x 15 inches; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

Note: Mauritz Frederik Hendrik de Haas, who once worked as a mariner, found great success in his spectacular maritime scenes. This work captures the vastness of the ocean as the three figures set out towards the open horizon.