Mrs. Godfrey
William
Paget Mellor (Norah Alston)
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1912
Private
collection
Charcoal
61 x 48.2 cm
(24 x 19
in)
signed and
dated 'John
S. Sargent 1912' (lower centre)
Jpg: Christies
Notes:
Special thanks to Wendy
& Gordon
Hawksley, of Sheffield, England, friends
of the JSS Gallery, for sending me headsup on this drawing.
Provenance
Mrs Bertram Currie,
Dingley Hall.
The sitter and by
descent.
Bibliography
D. McKibben, Sargent's
Boston with
an Essay and a Biographical Summary and a complete Check List of
Sargent's
portraits, Boston, 1956, p. 109.
Sale
Sold
at Christies, London, Nov 20, 2003; Sale #6825, Lot 181; £22,705 GBP (£ 1 = US$ 1.69);
estimated
4,000-6,000
GBP
- See the year in
review 1912
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