Lot 54
  • 54

JOHN LA FARGE | Blue Iris, Study

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • John La Farge
  • Blue Iris, Study
  • watercolor on paper
  • 10 3/4 by 9 inches
  • (27.3 by 22.9 cm)
  • Executed in 1879.

Provenance

The artist (sold: Leonard's Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, December 18, 1879, lot 3)
Henry Lee Higginson (acquired at the above sale) 
James Jackson Higginson (his brother, gift from the above)
By descent
Oliver Claxton (acquired from the above)
Margaret G. Fiske (acquired from the above) 
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts
Jerald Dillon Fessenden, by 1987 
The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York, by 1995

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Museum of Art; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, John La Farge, July 1987-April 1988, no. 107, pp. 142-43, illustrated p. 143
New York, The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Nature Vivante: The Still Lifes of John La Farge, April-June 1995, no. 62, pp. 47-48, 137, illustrated p. 137; also illustrated pl. 37, p. 104

Condition

The sheet is hinged to the support at three places along the reverse of the top edge and there is minor staining at the extreme edges.
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