Lot 129
  • 129

JOHN SINGER SARGENT | Pine Woods, Purtud

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • John Singer Sargent
  • Pine Woods, Purtud
  • watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on board
  • 12 by 18 inches
  • (30.5 by 45.7 cm)
  • Executed circa 1907.

Provenance

Violet Sargent (the artist's sister), 1925
Reine Ormond (her daughter)
James Coats, New York, 1961
Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Leonard Kimball Firestone, Beverly Hills, California, by 1968
Sold: Christie's, New York, September 13, 1995, lot 59
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

Exhibited

Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco, California, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Eight American Masters of Watercolor, April-October 1968, no. 21

Literature

Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907, vol. VII, New Haven, Connecticut, 2003, no. 1431, p. 312, illustrated

Condition

The sheet is laid down on board. There are artist's pinholes at corners and the work appears slightly faded.
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