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Property from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions

John Singer Sargent

Pressing the Grapes: Florentine Wine Cellar

Auction Closed

November 19, 11:13 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions

John Singer Sargent

1856 - 1925


Pressing the Grapes: Florentine Wine Cellar

oil on canvas

24 by 19 in.

61 by 48.3 cm.

Executed circa 1882-83.

Arthur Lemon, London (acquired as a gift from the artist by 1888)

Blanche Lemon, London (acquired by descent from the above in 1912)

Miss E. F. Hawtrey, London (acquired by descent from the above)

Leicester Galleries, London (acquired in 1954)

Acquired from the above in 1954 by the present owner

Fredericton, New Brunswick, University of New Brunswick, Bonar Law-Bennett Library, Exhibition of the Beaverbrook Collection of Paintings and Prints and Some Portraits from the Collection of Sir James Dunn, Bart., November 1954, no. 33, p. 16

Fredericton, New Brunswick, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, From Sargent to Freud: Modern British Paintings and Drawings in the Beaverbrook Collection, May - September 1998, no. 32, pp. 126-27, 191, illustrated in color

Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti; Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Denver Art Museum, Sargent and Italy, September 2002 - September 2003, no. 10, p. 62