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Property from the Worcester Art Museum, Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions

John Singer Sargent

Mrs. Gardiner Greene Hammond

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May 20, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Bid

250,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from the Worcester Art Museum, Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions

John Singer Sargent

1856 - 1925


Mrs. Gardiner Greene Hammond

signed John S. Sargent (upper left); dated 1903 (upper right)

oil on canvas

35 by 25 in.

88.9 by 63.5 cm.

Executed in 1903.

Esther Fiske Hammond, Boston (acquired directly from the artist in 1903)

Elizabeth Mifflin Hammond, Santa Barbara (acquired by descent from the above in 1955)

Acquired as a gift from the above in 1961 by the present owner

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1903. no. 90

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late John Singer Sargent, 1925, no. 92, p. 10

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1935-36

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Painting Today and Yesterday in the United States, 1941, no. 106

Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, Art in America, 1830-1950, Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Sculpture from the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum, 1969 (titled Esther Fiske Hammond)

Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, American Impressionism: Paintings of Promise, 1997-98, p. 73

Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, 2016-18

William Howe Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work, Boston, 1925, p. 211

Evan Charteris, John Sargent, New York, 1927, p. 270

Art Digest, June 1941, p. 15, illustrated

ArtNews, June 1941, p. 32, illustrated

Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, New York, 1955, no. 035, p. 437

Exh. Cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Sargent's Boston, 1956, p. 100

Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent, A Biography, London, 1957, p. 347

The Art Quarterly, vol. 21, 1958, p. 221

Worcester Art Museum, ed., Annual Report of the Trustees and Officers, 1962, pp. x and xiii

Worcester Art Museum, ed., "Sargent in Worcester," Worcester Art Museum News Bulletin and Calendar, vol. 29, no. 8, May 1964

Frederick A. Sweet, Miss Mary Cassatt: Impressionist from Pennsylvania, Norman, Oklahoma, 1966, p. 150

Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent, A Biography, New York, 1969, p. 441

Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, New York and Evanston, Illinois, 1970, p. 249

George L. Moses, Ring Around the Punch Bowl: The Story of the Beebe Woods in Falmouth on Cape Cod, Taunton, Massachusetts, 1976, pp. 169-70

Exh. Cat., New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, John Singer Sargent: His Own Work, 1980

Nancy Mowll Mathews, Mary Cassatt: A Life, New Haven and London, 1994, p. 247

Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits, New Haven and London, 2003, no. 447, p. 105, illustrated in color; p. 291

Delphi Classics, ed., John Singer Sargent, Hastings, East Sussex, 2015