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Purtud: Fir Trees and Snow Mountains

1908
Watercolor on paper
50.8 x 35.6 cm (20 x 14 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Notes:  Sale Sold at Sotheby's New York, 30 Nov 2005; Session 1, Sale No. N08134, Lot 23; Sold $51,000 USD ( was estimated  25,000—30,000 USD) This watercolor will be included in a forthcoming volume of the J.S. Sargent catalogue raisonné by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, in collaboration with Warren Adelson and Elizabeth...
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Reclining Figure

c. 1908
Watercolor on paper
9.5 x 34.9 cm (19 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Shipping, Majorca

1908
Watercolor on paper
29.21 x 44.45 cm (11.5 x 17.5 in)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Shoeing the Ox

1906 - 1910
Oil on canvas
56.4 x 71.5 cm

notes
From: Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums [Sargent] makes no attempt to sentimentalise the scene - to draw out the viewer's sympathy with the ox or to capture its character. Instead he suggests its power and energy by painting a compact scene. Only half of the ox is visible, so that its head and horns seem enormous when set against the much...
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Terragona

c. 1908
Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper mounted on board
19 1/2 x 13 7/8 inches

New Britain Museum of American Art

New Britain, CT

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The Black Brook

c.1908
Oil on canvas
55.2 x 69.8 cm

notes
The painting is of Rose-Marie Ormond, (Sargent's niece), daughter to Violet Sargent Ormond, (Sargent's youngest sister). Rose-Marie Ormond   (later Madame Robert André-Michel)  Date?  
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The Hermit (Il Solitario)

Rogers fund 1911
Oil on canvas
95.9 x 96.5 cm (37 3/4 by 38 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

notes
See as it hung in the Met 2003 A piece of extraordinary brilliant execution. The first impression is that of actual blinding sunlight and shadow among the eucalyptus stems of a southern forest; one is there in the hot atmosphere; the dazing effect on the brain, the coming headache, are admirably suggested. It is only after...
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The Hotel Room

c.1908
Oil on canvas
61 x 44.5 cm (24 x 17-1/2 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
For discussion of, see View from a Window Genoa, Italy   1911   Notes: Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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The Moraine

1908
Oil on canvas
55.9 x 71.1 cm

Curtis Galleries, Inc.

Minneapolis, MN

notes
Moraine: (noun) an accumulation of earth and stones carried and finally deposited by a glacier.  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 Sale Sold Christies; 5/26/1999; Lot 90; $772,500
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The Mosquito Net

1908
Oil on canvas
57.5 x 72.4 cm (22 5/8 x 28 1/2 in.)

The White House Collection

Washington, D.C.

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Notes Lycos did not date the painting. It apepars to be the same time as Mosquito Nets 1908. The SIRIS thinks the date might be 1910 References:     White House, 1988. Hoopes, Donelson F., "The Private World of John Singer Sargent," New York: Shorewood Publishers Inc., (Corcoran Gallery of Art), 1964. Illustration:    ...
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