Mrs.
Asquith
John
Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
Date?
Private
collection
charcoal
on paper
54 x 37.3 cm. (21¼ x 14 5/8in.)
signed 'John S. Sargent' lower right
Jpg:
Christies
Although the
drawing was not dated by Christies it could have possbily been done at
the time Sargent drew her son around 1908
Anthony
Asquith
c.
1908
(son
to Margot)
See Sargent's
earlier drawing:
Emma
(Margot), Countess of Oxford and Asquith
1897
Chalk
Notes:
Sold
Christies, 27 September 1996, New York, Park Avenue for $17,250, Sale #
8478. It was estimated $8,000 - $12,000
Provenance
George B. Warner, Esq.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York
Mr. Douglas Wardon, Baltimore, Maryland
Literature
Bibliography
W.H. Downes, John Singer Sargent, 1925, p. 288, no. 764
D. McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 1956, p. 114
Exhibited
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Watercolors by Sargent and
Barbizon, 1941, no. 30
New York, The Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies,
Exhibition of Helleu and Sargent Drawings, July 1943, no. 59
- See the year
in
review 1909
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