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Niagara Falls
Gilcrease
Museum

Niagara Falls

circa 1870
Albert Bierstadt visual detail
ArtistAlbert Bierstadt
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Market Intelligence

Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.

Public evidence
Last known price $52,500 Dealer sale · Apr 1, 1950
+8,650.0% vs previous observed sale
Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional
1949 · $6001950 · $52,500
$1K1949
$53K1950
Last known price$52,5002 matched observed sales
Observed median$26,550
Observed sales2
Artist index500.0
1950-04-01Dealer sale$52,500.00
1949-12-05Dealer purchase$600.00
Artist index contextLatest public build 500.0 · base 100 · n=1.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

Evidence ranked
ArtworkSale dateHouseRealized USDMatch
Western Landscape, Mountain Scene and River
Year n/a · oil on canvas
1950-04-01—$52,500.0068%
Western Landscape, Mountain Scene and River
Year n/a · oil on canvas
1949-03-06—$85.0068%
White Horse and Sunset
1863 · oil paint, cardboard
1951-12-31—$525.0048%
White Horse and Sunset
1863 · oil paint, cardboard
1949-03-01—$75.0048%
Deer in Mountain Home
1879 · paper, oil paint, cardboard
1953-07-30—$150.0047%
Buffalo Head
1879 · paper, oil paint, cardboard
1948-04-06—$175.0047%

Similarity score is descriptive evidence ranking, not a valuation model. Every row comes from the public-rights market boundary.

Provenance

Public
1/3/1950 - Gilcrease Foundation purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., NYC (#A4276)

1/3/1950 - Gilcrease Foundation purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., NYC (#A4276)

1955 - TGF to City

1955 - TGF to City

Source provenance text

1/3/1950 - Gilcrease Foundation purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., NYC (#A4276) 1955 - TGF to City

Gilcreaseconfidence 100%

Exhibitions

Public
No rights-cleared exhibition history is published.
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Sourced Overview Evidence

Niagara Falls is a work by Albert Bierstadt. dated circa 1870. made in oil on canvas. with recorded dimensions Framed: 38 × 30 3/4 × 3 3/4 in. (96.5 × 78.1 × 9.5 cm) Image: 27 × 20 in. (68.6 × 50.8 cm). The work is recorded by Gilcrease Museum under accession 0126.1174.

Gilcreaseconfidence 100%

Evidence state

2 observed sales · 6 comparable sales · 2 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.

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