On the
Verandah
(Ironbound
Island, Maine)
John
Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1920-1922?
Private
collection
Watercolor on paper
38.1 x 52.1 cm (15 x 20 1/2 in.)
Inscribed: (Lower left:) to my friend Dwight Blaney
John S. Sargent
Jpg:
.the-athenaeum
& Artnet.com
'On the Verandah'
shows Dwight
Blaney & his wife Edith with their 2 daughters Elizabeth (l) and
Margaret
(r) -- Ben Blaney
This is at their
summer house in Maine. Dwight Blaney (1865-1944) is seated in a chair,
reclining with his legs stretched out before him. He is smoking a pipe.
His wife, Edith Hill Blaney, who is wearing a hat, is seated, facing
away from her husband, and is sewing. Their daughter Margaret ("Meg")
(b. 1898) is seated on bench against the house. Elizabeth ("Libby") (b.
1905) is seated on the edge of the porch. Both daughters are also
sewing.
(SIRIS)
Photo
of Sargent painting a watercolor aboard
Dwight
Blaney's Yacht Norma Ironbound Island Maine.
The
Artist Sketching
1922
(Dwight
Blaney)
Note:
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Blaney, Dwight, until 1944.
Blaney, David,
Christie's, New York, New York Sale (Nov. 30, 1999), lot 62.
Bibliography:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2003, no. 584.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Illustration:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2003, pg. 249.
SIRIS IAP 81690548
JSS 10000
Sale
Sold at Christies
LA;
11/30/1999;
Lot 62; $387,500
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