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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 23, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 32 | $****** - ****** | JOHN ALFRED PARSONS MILLET |
paintings
oil on canvas
Lily Millet (the sitter's mother; gift from the artist)
John Alfred Parsons Millet, 1932 (the sitter, by descent)
Private collection, 1976 (by descent)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1980
London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., January-March 1926, no. 327, p. 49, illustrated p. 24
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Sargent's Boston, January-February 1956, no. 27, pp. 68, 110 (as John A.P. Millet as a child)
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, June 1989-May 1990, no. 47, p. 132, illustrated p. 133
Knoxville, Tennessee, Knoxville Museum of Art, American Grandeur: Masterpieces of the Masco and Manoogian Collections, February-July 1996
Hokkaido, Japan, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art; Shiga, Japan, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga; Akita, Japan, The Akita Museum of Modern Art; Tokuyama, Japan, Tokuyama City Museum of Art History, Sogo, Japan; Sogo Museum of Art, From the Hudson River School to Impressionism: American Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, July 1997-February 1998
Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum; Norfolk, Virginia, Chrysler Museum of Art; Portland, Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children, October 2004-September 2005, pp. 30, 32, illustrated p. 14 (detail) and pl. 4, p. 31
Vero Beach, Florida, Vero Beach Museum of Art, The American Spirit: Selections from the Manoogian Collection, October 2016-January 2017
William Howe Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work, Boston, Massachusetts, 1926, p. 337
Evan Charteris, John Sargent, London, 1927, p. 264
Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, New York, 1955, no. 923, p. 434; 1957 ed., p. 342; 1969 ed., p. 446
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s, Complete Paintings, New Haven, Connecticut, 2002, vol. II, no. 283, pp. 60-61, 179, illustrated
