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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 19, 2024 | Bonhams | New York | American Art | 55 | $****** - ****** | David Plays Before Saul | |||
Dec 13, 2021 | Hindman Auctions | Chicago | American & European Art | 39 | $****** - ****** | David Plays Before Saul (or David Playing before Saul ) | |||
Dec 4, 1986 | Sotheby's | New York | N/A | 216 | Estimates not disclosed | David playing before Saul |
paintings
57.5 x 77.5 cm (22.63 x 30.5 in)
oil on canvas
signed "John S. Sargent" (upper right) and bears artist"s estate stamp (on the reverse)
Estate of the artist.
Sale, Christie"s, London, July 25 and 27, 1925, lot 213, sold by the above.
Scott & Fowles, New York.
Esther Slater Kerrigan, New York.
Sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, January 8-10, 1942, lot 284, sold by the above. (as David Playing Before Saul: Bible Illustration )
Private collection, New York.
Sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, December 10-11, 1947, lot 187, sold by the above. (as David Playing Before Saul: Bible Illustration )
Joseph Muller, acquired at the above sale.
Babcock Galleries, New York.
Schweitzer Gallery, New York, by 1956.
Marymount School, Tarrytown, New York.
Mother Majella O"Brien.
Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, January 28-29, 1970, lot 260. (as David Playing Before Saul )
Sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, September 13, 1972, lot 94.
Fritz Katz.
Sale, Sotheby"s, New York, December 4, 1986, lot 216. (as David Playing Before Saul )
Private collection, Chester, New Jersey and Manalapan, Florida, (probably) acquired at the above sale.
By descent to the present owner from the above, 2002.
Boston, Copley Hall, Paintings and Sketches by John S. Sargent, R.A. , February 20-March 13, 1899, p. 15, no. 82. (as David Playing Before Saul. Illustration )
A.L. Baldry, "The Art of J.S. Sargent, R.A. Part II.," The Studio , London, March 1900, vol. XIX, no. 84, p. 118, illustrated. (as Bible Illustration: David Playing Before Saul )
W.H. Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work , Boston, 1925, p. 291. (as David Playing Before Saul )
W.H. Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work, with an Exhaustive Catalogue of his Works , London, 1926, p. 291. (as David Playing Before Saul )
Hon. E. Charteris, K.C., John Sargent , New York, 1927, p. 287. (as David playing before Saul )
C.M. Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography , New York, 1955, p. 447, K962. (as David Playing Before Saul )
"Notable Works of Art Now on the Market," The Burlington Magazine , December 1956, vol. 98, no. 645, pl. XXIV, illustrated.
C.M. Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography , New York, 1957, p. 357, K962. (as David Playing Before Saul )
C.M. Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography , New York, 1969, p. 469, K962. (as David Playing Before Saul )
R. Ormond, E. Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899: The Complete Paintings , New Haven, Connecticut, 2010, vol. V no. 1014, pp. 326, 362-63, illustrated.
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION, PALM BEACH John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
David Plays Before Saul
signed "John S. Sargent" (upper right) and bears artist"s estate stamp (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
22 5/8 x 30 1/2 in. (57.5 x 77.5 cm.)
Painted circa 1895-98.
