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