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    John Singer Sargent
    (1856 -1925)

    Donkeys in the Desert verso:
    A Study of Venice

    Executed 1880

    Oil on panel

    10 x 13 1/2 inches
    (25.4 x 50.2 cm.)

    Ex-Collection
    The Artist
    Violet Ormond
    (the artist's sister) by 1925
    By descent to her son,
    Guillaume Ormond, 1955
    Jermima Pitman, 1971
    Coe Kerr Gallery, New York 1987
    Private Collection until 2005

    Literature
    Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, New York , 1955 p.144 as Two Donkeys in a Desert with Squatting Figures


    This work will be included in the forthcoming John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonne by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, in collaboration with Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff

 

 

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