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John Singer Sargent

Two Oxen in a Stable (Siena Oxen)

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

John Singer Sargent

1856 - 1925


Two Oxen in a Stable (Siena Oxen)

watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper laid down on board

12½ by 18¼ in.

31.8 by 46.4 cm.

Executed circa 1910. 

Violet Sargent (acquired by bequest from the artist in 1925)
Reine Ormond (acquired by descent in 1955 from the above)
Stephen Spector, New York (acquired from the above in 1966)
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 28 October 1976, lot 125 (consigned by the above)
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Richard S. du Pont (acquired in 1984)
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York (acquired in 1987)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

William Howe Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work, London 1926, p. 347

Sargent Trust List, "Water Colours. Unframed," 1927, no. 1, p. 1

Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913, vol. VIII, New Haven 2014, no. 1622, p. 213, illustrated

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., 1926, no. 163, p. 27
Princeton University Art Museum, Drawings from a Private Collection, 1973 (as Cows in a Barn)
New York Cultural Center and New York, Whitney Museum of Art, John Singer Sargent, 1987