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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 23, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 39 | $****** - ****** | PORTRAIT OF OUR LANDLORD, THE BUDDHIST PRIEST, AT THE DOOR OF THE CLERGY HOUSE, IYEMITSU TEMPLE, NIKKO (PORTRAIT OF SUZUKI) |
Works on Paper
33 x 27.3 cm (12.99 x 10.75 in)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
dated and inscribed Nikko Japan/July. 1886. (lower right)
Henry D. Ostberg, New York, by 1979
Michael Altman Fine Art, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1987
New York, American Water Color Society, 1888, no. 401
Chicago, Illinois, Inter-State Industrial Exposition, 1888, no. 236
St. Louis, Missouri, St. Louis Exposition, September 1890, no. 242
Boston, Massachusetts, Doll & Richards, Catalogue of Drawings, Watercolors, and Paintings by Mr. John La Farge on Exhibition and Sale, March-April 1892, no. 23
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries; Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paintings, Studies, Sketches and Drawings, Mostly Records of Travel 1886 and 1890-91 by La Farge, February-April 1895, no. 33
Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Carnegie Museum of Art; Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, John La Farge, July 1987-April 1988
Yonkers, New York, Hudson River Museum; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute; Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art, John La Farge: Watercolors and Drawings, October 1990-August 1991, no. 83, illustrated pl. 6
New York, Hollis Taggart Galleries, American Artists in Japan, May-June 1996, no. 12
John La Farge, An Artist's Letters from Japan, New York, 1897, illustrated p. 187
dated and inscribed Nikko Japan/July. 1886. (lower right)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
image: 8 1/2 by 9 3/4 inches (21.6 by 24.8 cm)
sheet: 13 by 10 3/4 inches (33 by 27.3 cm)
