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![]() | Ernest Thesiger c. 1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]()
From: The Univerity of Bristol
Ernest Thesiger (1879-1961) was a star of stage and screen, most notorius for his portrayal of Dr Pretorius in the film 'The
Bride of Frankenstein' (1935). After an initial art training at the Slade, his
first professional stage appearance was in 'Colonel Smith' (1909) at St James's
Theatre
(The Univerity of... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | Ritratto of Ambrogio Raffaele c 1911 Gallery of Modern Art of Pitti Palace Florence, Italy | ![]()
Notes:
Special
thanks to Michele Lener, of Italy, a friend of the
JSS Gallery, for sending me a link to this image.
Exhibitions
Sargent
in Italy, 2002-2003
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![]() | Simplon Pass c. 1910-11 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | ![]()
From: 2020hindsight.org
Date:
4/6/2003
Went to LA
County Museum of Art yesterday to see the John Sargent
in Italy exhibit . . . Simplon
Pass . . . had my jaw on the floor,
but the quality of the [image above] is bad. The painting, from 10-15 feet away
is perfect, perfect. Up close, the painting is a scrambled set of brushstrokes
in... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | Lady in the Alps Reading c. 1907-1911 Denver Art Museum Denver, CO | ![]()
Note:
Special
thanks to Matt Davies, of Kansas City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for help
with some of the info.
The Berger
Collection, which is housed at the Denver Museum of Art, includes three Sargent
works. This is one of three.
Exhibited:
600 Years
of British Painting: The Berger Collection at the Denver Art Museum October... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | The Simplon c. 1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]()
Note:
Offered
Sotheby's; 5/24/2001; Lot 5
Sold
Christie's; 5/25/1989; Lot 225; $28,600
Sold
Sotheby's; 5/25/1988; Lot 173; $26,400
Date
estimated by Natasha. Sotheby's has a date of 1919, but this is highly
doubtful.
Exhibited:
New York,
Coe Kerr Gallery, John Singer Sargent, His Own
Work,
May-June
1980, no. 53, illustrated
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![]() | Simplon Pass: Mountain Brook 1911 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
![]() | In the Tyrol 1911 | ![]()
Note
From: Harvard:
Donalson
Hoopes, author of "Sargent Watercolors" (1976), visited the Fogg in
July of 1965. Hoopes identified the woman on the left as Dorothy Barnard, whom
Sargent had painted nearly twenty-five years earlier in Carnation, Lily, Lily,
Rose (1885-86, Tate Gallery, London). The woman on the right was identified by
Hoopes as... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | Reading 1911 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | ![]()
Notes:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition --
Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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![]() | Prince Arthur of Connaught (1883-1938 ) (Later Duke of Connaught) 1911 Private Collection Unknown, USA | ![]()
From: Matt Davies
<Matt
Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002
Prince Arthur of Connaught (1911), son of the Duke and Duchess of
Connaught, Grandson to Queen Victoria.
Prince Arthur married the Duchess of Fife in 1913 (Princess Alexandra of
Fife 1891-1959, granddaughter to King Edward VII, great granddaughter... | GA | igrkio |
![]() | The Rialto, Venice 1911 Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA | ![]()
Under the Rialto Bridge
1909
Notes:
Exhibitions
Gondola
Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle, 2004
Sargent and
Italy, 2002-2003
Froum
From: Jason
Ic er 0@aol.com
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004
The Rialto,
Venice spoke to me as both a great spatial painting with the different levels
of... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
















