Property from a New England Private Collection
Mrs. Edmond Kelly
Auction Closed
May 14, 06:49 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a New England Private Collection
John Singer Sargent
1856 - 1925
Mrs. Edmond Kelly
signed John S. Sargent (upper left); dated 1889 (upper right)
oil on canvas
43 ⅝ by 32 ¼ in.
110 by 81.9 cm.
Executed in 1889.
Mrs. Edmond Kelly, Coucy, France (acquired directly from the artist in 1891)
Shaun Kelly, Massachusetts (acquired by descent from the above in 1969)
Aileen Kelly, Massachusetts (acquired by descent from the above in 1976)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, New York, 1955, no. 8923, p. 432
David McKibbin, "A Complete Checklist of Sargent's Portraits," Sargent's Boston, Boston, 1956, p. 104
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Early Portraits, New Haven and London, 1998, no. 182, p. 186, illustrated in color; p. 258
Pittsfield, Berkshire Museum, Loan Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture Owned by Residents of Berkshire County Massachusetts, 1933, no. 34
Massachusetts, Fitchburg Art Museum, 1985-2019 (on extended loan)