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Private collection Oil on canvas 55.2 x 45.7 cm (21 3/4 x 18 in.) Stamped with the artist's estate stamp J.S.S. prior to lining; also inscribed Sketch of a Head/To be returned to London on the stretcher Notes:
Sale Sale: Christie, Manson & Woods, London, England, Pictures and Water Colour Drawings by J.S. Sargent, R.A. and Works by Other Artists, July 24, 1925, lot 147 Francis Howard, Esq. (acquired at the above sale; sold: Christie's, London, England, Francis Howard Collection, November 26, 1956) Julius Weitzner Gallery, New York Acquired by the present owners (The Philip and Muriel Berman collection) from the above, 1962 Exhibited London, England, National Gallery, British Painting Since Whistler, March-August 1940, no. 574 London, England, Royal Academy of Arts, 1940 Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art; Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, The Private World of John Singer Sargent, April 1964-January 1965, no. 30 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Lehigh University; Reading, Pennsylvania, Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery; Scranton, Pennsylvania, Everhart Museum, June-July 1971 Collegeville, Pennsylvania, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, A Passion for Art: Selections from the Berman Collection, The Inaugural Exhibition, October-December 1989, p. 61, illustrated in color Bibliography David McKibben, Sargent's Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 1956, p. 84
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