JOHN LA FARGE (1835-1910)

Lot 215
23.01.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1360500
Lot 215 | JOHN LA FARGE (1835-1910)
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
JOHN LA FARGE (1835-1910)
Camellia in Old Chinese Vase on Black Lacquer Table
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
image, 10 x 9 in. (25.4 x 22.9 cm.);
sheet, 10 ¾ x 9 in. (27.3 x 22.9 cm.)
Executed in 1879.




Provenance

The artist.
Leonard’s Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 18-19 December 1879, lot 14.
Mrs. James Barr Ames, Boston, Massachusetts, (probably) acquired from the above.
Private collection, by descent from the above.
Sotheby’s, New York, 23 May 2007, lot 3, sold by the above.
Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2007.



Exhibited

(Probably) New York, Union League Club, Works of Art, Exhibited at the March 1879 Meeting of the Union League Club, March 1879, no. 57.
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, La Farge Memorial Exhibition, January 1911.
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, John La Farge, February-April 1988.
New York, The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Nature Vivante: The Still Lifes of John La Farge, April 28-June 9, 1995, pp. 45, 96, 133, no. 50, pl. 29, illustrated.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Art of American Still Life: Audubon to Warhol, October 27, 2015-January 10, 2016, pp. 182, 201, pl. 78, illustrated.
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