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John Singer Sargent

Boy on a Rock

watercolor on paper

sheet: 15¾ by 21 inches (40.1 by 53.3 cm)

Executed circa 1908-09.

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John Singer Sargent
Boy on a Rock

watercolor on paper

sheet: 15¾ by 21 inches (40.1 by 53.3 cm)

Executed circa 1908-09.

Provenance

The artist

Christie's, London, 24 and 27 July 1925, lot 4 (consigned by the estate of the above, as Near Carrara, Italy: A Boy Leaning on a Sandbank)

Spink & Son, London (acquired at the above sale)

(possibly) Comtesse Ducrey, France

Sotheby's, New York, 30 November 1989, lot 155

Private Collection, Palm Beach

Acquired by descent to the present owner

Literature

Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913, Complete Paintings, vol. 8, New Haven and London 2014, no. 1537, p. 131, illustrated in color