John
Singer Sargent (1856 -1925)
Corfu
Executed
circa 1909
Watercolor and pencil on paper
14 x
20 inches
(35.6 x 50.8 cm.)
Ex-Collection:
Miss Emily Sargent,
(sister of the artist)
Agnew's
The Milch Galleries , 1964
Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Potamkin
Sotheby's, New York,
21 May 2003, lot 58
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Exhibitions:
London, England, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of the Works
of the late John Singer Sargent, R.A., Winter Exhibition,
1926, no. 548. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, William Penn Memorial
Museum, An Alumnus Salutes Dickinson College 200th Anniversary
(From the Collection of Meyer and Vivian Potamkin), November
1972-January 1973, no. 133.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts, American Art from the Collection of Vivian and Meyer
P. Potamkin, June-October 1989, p. 13.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts, American Watercolors at the Pennsylvania Academy,
October 2000-January 2001
Literature:
W.H. Downes, John S. Sargent, Boston, Massachusetts, 1925,
p. 234. C.M. Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, New
York, 1969, p. 474.
R. Rice, "Made in the U.S.A.," Philadelphia City
Paper, June 23, 1989, p. 9.
This watercolor will be included in the forthcoming John
Singer Sargent catalogue raisonné by Richard Ormond
and Elaine Kilmurray, in collaboration with Warren Adelson
and Elizabeth Oustinoff
