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Christie’s is delighted to announce the consignment for sale of Marsden Hartley’s Lighthouse – an American Modernist masterwork and the finest painting of its kind to be offered in a generation. An oil on canvas measuring 40 by 30 inches, and created in Berlin in 1915, Lighthouse is presently on exhibit for the first time in the United States. Until now, the painting had remained in Germany, where it only recently came to light after its rediscovery in an East German museum. Estimated at $5 to $7 million, Lighthouse is expected to set a new auction record for Hartley when it is offered for sale on May 21 at Christie’s New York auction of Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. A high-point of Hartley’s early modernism, Lighthouse combines elements of Cubism and Expressionism into a monumental work of power and originality. Few modernists ever equaled the achievement of Hartley’s Berlin paintings, which are widely admired as the earliest and most compelling examples of American Modernism.
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