JOHN LA FARGE | SELU'S DAUGHTER (ANOTHER STANDING DANCE)

Doll & Richards, Boston, Massachusetts

Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York

Mrs. Samuel Dennis (Susan Cornelia Clarke) Warren, Boston, Massachusetts

Samuel Dennis Warren Jr. (her son), 1902

Mrs. Joseph Gardner (Mabel B. Warren) Bradley (his daughter), Boston, Massachusetts, 1910

Joseph Gardner Bradley, Boston, Massachusetts (her husband), 1961

Mrs. Ferdinand F. (Mabel Bradley) Colloredo-Mansfield (his daughter), Boston, Massachusetts, 1972

Sold: Christie’s, New York, December 8, 1978, lot 92

Thomas Colville Fine Art, Guilford, Connecticut (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1979

Edith Burnham, “Four La Farge Paintings Now Being Shown at Art Museum,” Boston Museum Traveler, December 28, 1910, p. 3

Henry La Farge, “Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of John La Farge,” unpublished manuscript, 1934-74, card 357

Michael Quick, “Living with Antiques: A Collection Where East Meets West,” The Magazine Antiques, November 2001, vol. 160, no. 5, p. 683, illustrated pl. VI (as Standing Dance, Three Girls - Samoa)

In an entry from his Reminisces of the South Seas dated October 26, 1890, La Farge describes his meeting with Selu, an important head chief in Iva, a village at the east end of Savai’I island in Samoa: “This chief is a most interesting and sympathetic person, speaking English very well … [He] explained to us that this being Sunday we have no reception, but that tomorrow there will be a formal reception, called a talolo, and giving of presents, and that there will be dances. So that we shall spend this evening quietly, with a bath in the pool of fresh water, that is open to the sea, and try to rest” (John La Farge, Reminiscences of the South Seas, New York, 1916, pp. 175-76).