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Property Sold to Benefit an Educational Foundation

John La Farge

Water Lilies and Hibiscus

Auction Closed

May 20, 08:59 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property Sold to Benefit an Educational Foundation

John La Farge

1835 - 1910


Water Lilies and Hibiscus

signed with the artist’s monogram (lower right)

watercolor on paper

12 by 15 ⅜ in.

30.5 by 39.1 cm.

Executed circa 1865.

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Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York

Private Collection, Virginia (probably acquired from the above)

Leah and Richard Waitzer Foundation, Virginia (acquired as a gift from the above by 2019)

Acquired as a gift from the above by the present owner

New York, Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Nature Vivante: The Still Lifes of John La Farge, 1995, no. 44, pp. 39 and 92, pl. 25, illustrated in color; p. 131, illustrated