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John Singer Sargent

Piazza Navona, Rome

Auction Closed

April 20, 12:24 AM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

John Singer Sargent

1856 - 1925

Piazza Navona, Rome


watercolor, ink and pencil on paper

21 x 17 in. (53.3 x 43.2 cm.)

Executed in 1906. 

Estate of the artist
Violet Sargent (acquired by bequest in 1925)
H.E. Conrad Ormond (acquired by descent in 1955)
Private Collection (acquired by descent in 1979)
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York
Wolf Family Collection No. 0745 (acquired from the above in 1982)
William Howe Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work, London, 1926, p. 287
The Sargent Trust: List of Pictures and Drawings in the Possession of Mrs. Ormond as Tenant for Life, London, 1927, no. 142, p. 28
Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, New York, 1970, pl. XVI, p. 234
Annette Blaugrund & Patricia Hills, eds., John Singer Sargent, New York, 1986, pl. 188, p. 223, illustrated
Richard Ormond & Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907, vol. VII, New Haven, 2012, no. 1350, pp. 72, 96, 218-19, illustrated

London, New English Art Club, Summer Exhibition, 1907, no. 21

London, Carfax & Co., Water Colours by John S. Sargent, R.A., 1908, no. 1

Paris, Association Franco-Américaine d'Expositions de Peinture et Sculpture, Hôtel de la Chambre Syndicale de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts, Exposition d'Art Américain: Oeuvres des John S. Sargent, R.A., Dodge MacKnight, Winslow Homer, Paul Manship, 1923, no. 68

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., 1926, no. 73, p. 18

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt, 1954, no. 90, p. 73, illustrated

Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art; Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, The Private World of John Singer Sargent, 1964-65, no. 108

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art & Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent, 1986-87, no. 188, p. 223, illustrated

New York, Adelson Galleries, Inc., Sargent Abroad: An Exhibition, 1997, no. 235, pp. 226-27, illustrated