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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 20, 2008 | Doyle | New York | Modern & Contemporary and European & American Art | 2246 | $****** - ****** | The Altar, Sark |
paintings
22.9 x 40.6 cm (9 x 16 in)
Oil on panel
Signed Wm T. Richards (lr) and inscribed as titled on the reverse and on the backing
William Trost Richards
American, 1833-1905
The Altar, Sark
Signed Wm T. Richards (lr) and inscribed as titled on the reverse and on the backing
Oil on panel
9 x 16 inches
In the catalogue for the estate sale in January, 1906 of the contents of William Trost Richards" studio, three works are listed whose titles allude to the Isle of Sark: Derrible Bay, Sark; The Coulee, Sark (likely a typographical error referring to the Coupee) , and Sark. Since all three compositions are of the same size as the present work, and none are reproduced, it is unclear whether this piece is one of the three included in the sale. [The Important Collection of the Late Wm. T. Richards with the Paintings of the late Geo. H. Boughton, The Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, January 10-13, 1906.]
The rock formations in the present work are very close to those in a nineteenth-century British photogravure series depicting the Port du Moulin and Autelet on Sark, one of the Channel Islands. However, the coast appea
