John La Farge (1835-1910)

Old Japanese Screen of Imari Ware

Details

John La Farge (1835-1910)
Old Japanese Screen of Imari Ware
watercolor and pencil on paper
8 x 8½ in. (20.3 x 21.6 cm.) (image)

Provenance

By descent in the artist's family to the present owner.

Literature

S.N. Carter, "The Water-Colour Exhibition", Art Journal, New York, March 1879, vol. 5, p. 94.
"Fine Arts: The American Water-Color Society's Exhibition", The Nation, February 6, 1879, vol. 28, p. 107 (as Japanese Inro).
J.L. Yarnall, Nature Vivante: The Still Lifes of John La Farge, The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York, 1995, p. 44 (referenced as a lost work).

Exhibited

New York, American Water Color Society, Twelfth Annual Exhibition of the American Water Color Society, March 1879, no. 250.

Lot Essay

According to Dr. James L. Yarnall, the present watercolor is a long-lost work known until this time only from the 1879 exhibition of the American Watercolor Society.
This work will be included in the forthcoming publication of the late Henry La Farge's catalogue raisonné of the works of John La Farge, completed by J. Yarnall.

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