ID 1423013
Lot 141 | JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 70 000
Oxen on the Beach at Baia
signed and indistinctly inscribed 'John S. Sargent' (lower left)
gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1901-1908
Provenance
Edmund Graff Hamersly, Devon, Pennsylvania (gift from the artist, circa 1909).
Emily Newbold Hamersly, Philadelphia (daughter of the above).
Anne von Albade Cabeen (née Hamersly), Philadelphia (sister of the above).
American Art Gallery (Jack Shore), Chicago (1946).
Judge Milton H. Solomon, Chicago.
Prestige Art Galleries (Louis Schutz), Skokie, Illinois (1988).
Spanierman Gallery, New York (1995).
Richard L. Thune, New York.
David Findlay, Jr., Inc., New York (by 2014).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
American Magazine of Art, vol. XIV, December 1923, pp. 666 and 669 (illustrated).
R. Ormond, “Beasts of Burden” in W. Adelson et al., Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes, 1997, pp. 162-163 (illustrated, pl. 156).
R. Ormond and E. Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913, The Complete Works, New Haven, 2014, vol. VIII, pp. 216-217, 377 and 396, no. 1628 (illustrated).
Exhibited
San Francisco, 1909.
Philadelphia Water Color Club and the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters, Twenty-First Annual Philadelphia Watercolor Exhibition, November-December 1923, no. 199 (titled Oxen on the Beach at Baja).
Newport, Rhode Island, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Paintings and Watercolors by John Singer Sargent, August-September 1935, no. 34.
New York, Spanierman Gallery, Masters of American Art: 1850-1950, October-December 1996.
New York, Adelson Galleries, Inc., Sargent Abroad: An Exhibition, November-December 1997.
New York, Spanierman Gallery, 125 Years of American Watercolor Painting, 1998, no. 49.
| Artist: | John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor on paper |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Marine art |
| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor on paper |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Marine art |
| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
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