ID 1536656
Lot 21 | JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
Reine Ormond
signed 'John S. Sargent' (lower left)—inscribed 'to Miss Ruby/John S Sargent' (on the original mat)
watercolor and pencil on paper
6 x 4 ½ in. (15.2 x 11.4 cm.)
Executed circa 1910-11.
Provenance
The artist.
Ruby Wertheimer, London, gift from the above.
Barbizon House, London, 1928.
Hugo Pitman, London, circa 1928.
Reine Ormond Pitman, London, wife of the above, by descent from the above.
Davis & Long Co., New York.
Dr. and Mrs. Jacob Y. Terner, Los Angeles, California, 1974.
Davis & Langdale Company, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1994.
Literature
Barbizon House: An Illustrated Record, London, 1928, no. 35, illustrated.
D. McKibbin, Sargent's Boston: With an Essay & a Biographical Summary & a Complete Checklist of Sargent's Portraits, exhibition catalogue, Boston, Massachusetts, 1956, p. 114.
R. Ormond, E. Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits, vol. III, New Haven, Connecticut, 2003, pp. 224, 304, no. 562, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, Davis & Long Co., American Painting, October 15-November 2, 1974, n.p., no. 30, illustrated (as Young Girl Wearing a Bonnet).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent, October 7, 1986-April 19, 1987, pp. 233, 291, fig. 197, illustrated (as Young Girl Wearing a Bonnet).
| Artist: | John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925) |
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| Applied technique: | Watercolor on paper |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| 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: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Watercolors and drawings |
| Address of auction |
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