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Gordon Greenough by John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

Gordon Greenough, 1880

Oil on canvas
55.9 x 46.4 cm (22.01 x 18.27 in)
Paintings
Unique artwork
LiveArt Estimate™
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Momentum 12M
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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, New York (02 Dec 2010)
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Past Sales
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Dec 2, 2010
Sotheby'sNew YorkAmerican Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture86
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Gordon Greenough
Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

55.9 x 46.4 cm (22.01 x 18.27 in)

Materials

oil on canvas

Signature

signed and dated John S. Sargent / Venice 1880, u.r.; and inscribed To my Friend Greenough

Provenance

Richard Saltonstall Greenough (the sitter's father) Daniel Sargent Curtis, Palazzo Barbaro, Venice, Italy Ralph Wormeley Curtis(his son), Paris, France and Palazzo Barbaro, Venice, Italy

Private Collection, Paris, France Wildenstein and Co., New York, by 1973

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1974.

Literature

Evan Charteris, John Sargent, London, 1927, p. 258 Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, New York, no. 8014, 1955 ed., p. 428; 1957 ed., p. 337; 1969 ed., p. 440 David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, with an Essay and a Biographical Summary, Boston, Massachusetts, 1956, p. 99 Charles Merrill Mount, "New Discoveries Illumine Sargent's Paris Career," Art Quarterly, 1957, p. 312, illustrated fig. 5 Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolours, London, 1970, p. 21 Richard Ormand and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Early Portraits, Complete Paintings, vol. 1, New Haven, Connecticut, 1998, pp. 90-91, 245, illustrated in color p. 90, no. 85