Eleutherios Venizelos

Details

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Eleutherios Venizelos
signed 'John Singer Sargent' (lower left)--dated '1924' (lower right)
charcoal on paper
24¼ x 18½ in. (61.6 x 47 cm.)

Provenance

The sitter, acquired directly from the artist, 1924.
By descent in the family of the sitter.
Sotheby's, New York, 23 September 1993, lot 126, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, 1926
Tokyo, Japan, Isetan Museum of Art, Sargent Exhibition in Japan, January-June 1989, p. 130, no. 88, illustrated (and traveling)

Lot Essay

The sitter was the Prime Minister of Greece intermitently from 1910-1933. He is considered to be the father of modern Greek democracy.

This drawing has been reviewed and accepted by the John Singer Sargent Catalogue Raisonné Committee.

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