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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 20, 2023 | Christie's | New York | European Art | 42 | $****** - ****** | The Balneator | |||
Jun 16, 2010 | Christie's | London | Victorian & British Impressionist Pictures Including Drawings & Watercolours | 166 | $****** - ****** | The Balneator | |||
Nov 5, 1997 | Sotheby's | London | Victorian Pictures | 220 | $****** - ****** | Balneator |
paintings
37.5 x 27.3 cm (14.76 x 10.75 in)
pencil and watercolor with scratching out on paper on board
signed and inscribed "L Alma Tadema. op CLXXVI." (lower right)
The artist.
with Pilgeram & Lefèvre, London, acquired directly from the above, 1877.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby"s, London, 5 November 1997, lot 220.
Private collection, acquired at the above sale.
Their sale; Christie"s, London, 16 June 2010, lot 166.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
London, Society of Painters and Water-Colours, Winter Exhibition , 1876-1877, no. 332.
Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Luminous Paper: British Watercolors and Drawings , 19 July-23 October 2011, no. 27, as The Balneator (Bath Attendant).
R. Dircks, "Sir L. Alma-Tadema O.M., R.A., R.W.S.," The A rt Journal , London, December 1910, p. 30 .
"Society of Painters in Water Colours", The Globe, London, 5 December 1876, p. 6.
"Art Exhibition in London", The Glasgow Herald , Glasgow, 7 December 1876, p. 3.
"Society of Painters in Water Colours", The Daily News , London, 8 December 1876, p. 2.
"Art", The Spectator , London, 9 December 1876, p. 1541.
"Fine Arts", Illustrated London News , London, 9 December 1876, p. 562.
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"Winter Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours", The Athenaeum, London, 9 December 1876, p. 767.
"Water-Colour Exhibitions", The Saturday Review , London, 16 December 1876, p. 756.
E. W. Godwin, "Afternoon Strolls", The Architect , London, 23 December 1876, p. 364.
C. H. Ross, ed., "Winter Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours", Judy, vol. xx, London, 27 December 1876, p. 108.
L. Robinson, "Correspondance D"Angleterre, " La Chronique des arts , Paris, 24 February 1877, p. 74.
C. E. Pascoe, "London Exhibitions", The A rt Journal , vol. 3, London, 1887, p. 60.
"Winter Exhibitions", The A rt Journal , vol. 8, London, 1887, p. 55.
V. G. Swanson, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema , London, 1977, p. 138.
R. Borger, Drei Klassizisten: Alma Tadema, Ebers, Vosmaer , Leiden, 1978, p. 11, no. 176.
V. G. Swanson, The Biography and Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema , London, 1990, p. 196, under no. 217.
R. J. Barrow, Lawrence Alma-Tadema , London and New York, 2001, pp. 99, 102, no. 95, illustrated.
B. Massabò, Albingaunum: itinerari archeologici di Albenga , Genoa, 2004, p. 102, illustrated.
SIR LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA, O.M., R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1836-1912)
The Balneator
signed and inscribed "L Alma Tadema. op CLXXVI." (lower right)
pencil and watercolor with scratching out on paper on board
14 7/8 x 10.7/5 in. (37.5 x 27.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1876-1877.
