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Sold by The Art Institute of Chicago

Joaquín Sorolla

Study for 'Sad Inheritance'

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

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Sold by The Art Institute of Chicago

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

1863 - 1923 


Study for 'Sad Inheritance'

oil on canvas laid down on board

12 by 23 ¼ in.

30.5 by 59.1 cm.

Executed in Valencia in Summer 1899.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Blanca Pons-Sorolla, who will be including it in the Sorolla catalogue raisonné (BPS 3447).

Private Collection, New York

Julius H. Weitzner, Inc., New York

Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester, Chicago (acquired by 1930)

Acquired as a gift from the above in 1947 by the present owner

Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, no. 100, p. 90

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 420

Dallas, Meadows Museum; Dallas, Southern Methodist University and The San Diego Museum of Art, Sorolla and America, 2013-14, no. 87, p. 237