Notes:
Special thanks to Colleen Kollar Zorn, with A.J. Kollar Fine Paintings LLC,  of Seattle,
Washington USA, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending along the image and info.

From: Colleen Kollar Zorn
co  ll een@ajkollar.com
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004

This work is currently offered for sale by A.J. Kollar Fine Paintings, Seattle, Washington.

A.J. Kollar Fine Paintings
1421 East Aloha Street
Seattle, Washington USA 98112
Tel : (206) 323-2156
Fax: (206) 323-1835

Provenance:  

The Artist, 1880
Violet Ormond (sister of the artist), 1925
By descent to her son, Guillaume Ormond, 1955
By descent to his niece, Jemima Pitman, 1971
Coe Kerr Gallery, 1987
Private Collection, New York
Private Collection, New York , since 1987

Bibliography: 

Mount 1955 (K8034), p. 444 as Two Donkeys in a Desert with Squatting Figures, dated "1880"; 1957 Edition, p. 354 and 1969 Edition, p. 461.

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne on John Singer Sargent by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, published by Yale University Press. 

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