JOHN LA FARGE | BLUE IRIS, STUDY

Auction Closed

September 17, 04:16 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private Midwestern Collection

JOHN LA FARGE

1835 - 1910

BLUE IRIS, STUDY

watercolor on paper

10 ¾ by 9 inches

(27.3 by 22.9 cm)

Executed in 1879.

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