John Singer Sargent's Purtud: Fir Trees and Snow Mountains

Purtud: Fir Trees and Snow Mountains John Singer Sargent -- American painter 1908
Private colelction
Watercolor on paper
50.8 x 35.6 cm (20 x 14 in.)
stamped with artist's estate stamp J.S.S. on the reverse
Jpg: Sotheby's

Notes:

Sale

Sold at Sotheby's New York, 30 Nov 2005; Session 1, Sale No. N08134,
Lot 23; Sold $51,000 USD ( was estimated 25,000—30,000 USD)

This watercolor will be included in a forthcoming volume of the J.S. Sargent catalogue raisonné by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, in collaboration with Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff.

Provenance

The artist
Sale: Christie's, Manson & Woods, London, England, Pictures and Water Colour Drawings by J.S. Sargent, R.A. and Works by Other Artists, July 24, 1925, lot 28
Leggatt Brothers, London, England
Sir Harold Wernher, Bedfordshire, England
By descent in the family, 1973 (sold: Christie's, London, England, Works of Art from the Wernher Collection, July 5, 2000, lot 84)
Private collection, New York

See the year in review 1908