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Property from a New England Private Collection

John Singer Sargent

Mrs. Edmond Kelly

Auction Closed

May 14, 06:49 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

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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)