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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
- Egyptian Water Jars

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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Egyptian Water Jars
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • $66,000
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    $50,000 - $70,000

Sale Information

Sale 1520
IMPORTANT AMERICAN PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS AND SCULPTURE
19 May 2005
New York, Rockefeller Plaza





Lot Description

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Egyptian Water Jars
watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm.)

Pre-Lot Text

The Norman and Cynthia Armour Collection

Provenance

M. Knoedler & Co., New York.
Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of the Arts and Sciences, New York.

Literature

W.H. Downes, J.S. Sargent, Boston, Massachusetts, 1925, p. 270, no. 563.

Exhibited

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., February 15-27, 1909, no. 25.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Sargent and Brabazon, February-March, 1941, no. 23.

Lot Notes

This work will be included in the forthcoming John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonné by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, in collaboration with Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff.