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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jan 19, 2023 | Christie's | New York | From Peale to Peto: American Masters from the Pollack Collection | 228 | $****** - ****** | Water-Lilies. Red and Green Pads. Study from Nature | |||
Nov 19, 2015 | Christie's | New York | American Paintings | 111 | $****** - ****** | Water-lilies. Red and Green Pads. Study from Nature | |||
May 24, 2001 | Sotheby's | New York | American Art | 8 | $****** - ****** | Water lillies with red and green pads |
Works on Paper
24.8 x 30.5 cm (9.75 x 12 in)
watercolor and gouache on paper
The artist.
Doll & Richards, Boston, Massachusetts, 1890.
Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Montgomery Sears, Boston, Massachusetts, acquired from the above, 1890.
Mrs. J.D. Cameron Bradley, Southborough, Massachusetts, daughter of the above, 1935.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, acquired from the above, 1959.
Mrs. Norman B. Woolworth, New York and Monmouth, Maine, acquired from the above, 1960.
R. Frederick Woolworth, New York, son of the above, 1994.
Sarah Mleczko Fine Art, New York, acquired from the above, 1994.
Manoogian Collection, Detroit, Michigan, acquired from the above, 1994.
Sotheby"s, New York, 24 May 2001, lot 8, sold by the above.
Acquired by the late owner from the above.
New York, Moore"s Art Gallery, A Collection of Oil and Water Color Paintings, by John La Farge , March 26-27, 1885, no. 12 (as Water Lilies in black water. Study from nature. ).
Boston, Massachusetts, Doll & Richards, Drawings, Watercolors, and Paintings by Mr. John La Farge on Exhibition and Sale , January 25-February 6, 1890, no. 1.
Boston, Massachusetts, St. Botolph Club, Regular Water-Color Exhibit, March 1890, no. 36.
Chicago, Illinois, World"s Columbian Exposition , May 1-October 30, 1893, no. 1318.
New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Paintings, Studies, Sketches and Drawings, Mostly Records of Travel 1886 and 1890-91 by John La Farge, February 25-March 25, 1895, no. 225.
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, La Farge Memorial Exhibition , January 1-31, 1911.
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Prints and Drawings by Winslow Homer and John La Farge , June 25-August 2, 1936.
New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, 150 Years of American Still-Life Painting, April 27-May 16, 1970, no. 29, illustrated.
New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, The American Painting Collection of Mrs. Norman B. Woolworth , November 10-28, 1970, no. 73.
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 10, 1987-April 24, 1988, pp. 141, 264, no. 59, fig. 105, illustrated (as Water Lilies in Black Water. Study from Nature (Water Lilies. Red and Green Pads.) ).
New York, The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., Nature Vivante: The Still Lifes of John La Farge , April 28-June 9, 1995, pp. 50, 110, 142, no. 75, pl. 43, illustrated.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950 , April 8-June 25, 2006.
"Many Bidders at a Sale of Paintings," New York Tribune , March 27, 1885, p. 2.
"La Farge"s Works at Auction," New York Times , March 27, 1885, p. 8.
"The Fine Arts: The Loan Collection of Watercolors at the St. Botolph Club--First Article," Boston Evening Transcript , December 9, 1891, p. 8.
H. La Farge , Manuscript Catalogue of the Works of John La Farge , La Farge Papers, Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut, 1935.
S.W. Reed, C. Troyen, Awash in Color: Homer, Sargent, and the Great American Watercolor, Boston, Massachusetts, 1993, p. xxiv.
"The Still Lifes of John La Farge at Jordan-Volpe Gallery," Antiques and The Arts Weekly , April 21, 1995, p. 86.
A. Page, "Stateside," Antique Collector , vol. 66, May 1995, p. 32.
JOHN LA FARGE (1835-1910)
Water-Lilies. Red and Green Pads. Study from Nature
watercolor and gouache on paper
image, 8 x 12 in. (20.3 x 30.5 cm.);
sheet, 9 3/4 x 12 in. (24.8 x 30.5 cm.)
Executed in 1883.
