American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture including Property from The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

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Lot 69
  • 69

John Singer Sargent 1856-1925

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Description

  • John Singer Sargent
  • Portrait of Blanche Marchesi
  • signed John S. Sargent and inscribed The grand artist/Blanche Marchesi/In admiration, l.r.
  • charcoal on paper mounted on board
  • 24 3/4 by 19 in.
  • (62.9 by 48.3 cm)
  • Executed circa 1910.

Provenance

Blanche Marchesi (commissioned from the artist)
By descent to the present owner (the sitter's grandson)

Exhibited

Oldham, England, Oldham Art Gallery, A Dream of Fair Women, May 1910