Portrait of Geoffrey Murray-Smith

細節

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Portrait of Geoffrey Murray-Smith
signed 'John S. Sargent' (lower left)--dated '1915' (lower right)
charcoal on paper laid down on board
22 x 13 in. (55.7 x 33 cm.)

來源

The sitter's family, commissioned from the artist.
By descent in the sitter's family to the previous owner.

拍品專文

The present drawing was executed shortly before the sitter's departure for France at the age of nineteen. Geoffrey Murray-Smith was tragically killed in action only months later on September 28, 1915 at Vermelles, France, a small town in Pas de Calais near the Belgium border. He was serving as a second lieutenant with the fifth battalion of the Royal Fusiliers.

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