Rosina-Capri
John
Singer Sargent
-- American painter
1878
Private
collection
Oil on
canvas
19.7
x 25.5 in.
Signed:
"John S Sargent/
Capri"?
Jpg: artnet.com
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Note:
Special thanks to
Michele Lener,
of Italy, a friend
of the JSS Gallery, for sending me a postcard of this painting.
Exhibitions
Sargent
in Italy, 2002-2003
Sargent's
Women, Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003
Sale
Sold
Sothebys;
5/24/2001; Lot 15;
$5,395,750
"Sotheby's sale on
May 24 featured
a pair of Italian pictures by John Singer Sargent. The catalogue cover
lot, Rosina-Capri (1878), which shows a 17-year-old local model dancing
the tarentella on a rooftop, accompanied by a female musician with a
tambourine,
barely made it past its reserve to sell with premium for $5,395,750
(est.
$5 million-$7 million). The price is the fourth highest at auction for
a Sargent work; the record is about $11 million, set at Sotheby's in
1996.
The second Italian picture, a Landscape study at San Vigilio, Lake of
Garda
(est. $300,000-$400,000), failed to sell. "
(artnet.com)
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