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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
- Spirito Santo, Zattere (Venice, Zattere)

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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Spirito Santo, Zattere (Venice, Zattere)
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • $144,000
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    $100,000 - $150,000

Sale Information

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





Lot Description

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Spirito Santo, Zattere (Venice, Zattere)
signed and inscribed '24/Venice. Zattere/by J.S. Sargent' (on the reverse)
watercolor and pencil on paper
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1903.

Pre-Lot Text

PROPERTY OF A LADY

Provenance

The artist.
William James, Boston, Massachusetts.
John James, Boston, Massachusetts.
With Castano Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 1961.
With Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1963.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Spencer, New York, 1966.
Spanierman Gallery, New York, 1990.

Literature

Spanierman Gallery, The Spencer Collection of American Art, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1990, pp. 48-9, no. 23, illustrated.

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century American Art from Private Collections, June 27-September 11, 1972, no. 59.
New York, Spanierman Gallery, The Spencer Collection of American Art, June 13-29, 1990.
New York, Spanierman Gallery, Masters of American Impressionism, May 8-June 28, 1991.

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.