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