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 | The Green Dress 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Pink Dress 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Man Seated by a Stream 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | In the Generalife 1912 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Chalet 1912 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Abries 1912 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Mountain Stream c. 1912-1914 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Hospital at Granada 1912 National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, VIC | GA | igrkio | |
 | Granada: The Weavers 1912 Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | GA | igrkio | |
 | Spanish Midday, Aranjuez 1912 or 1913 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Capilla Real Entablature, Granada 1912 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Blind Musicians 1912 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Tamara Karsavina in the Title Role of 'Thamar' c. 1911-1912 | 
Tamara
Platonovna Karsavina (1885-1978)
one of the
great Russian ballet dancers. She first made her mark with the internationally
acclaimed Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev and was a true prima ballerina --
intelligent and gifted.
By 1912 (possibly
1911 as well based on Harvard dating) at the age of 27, she was performing... | GA | igrkio |
 | Olives in Corfu 1912 Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK |
Notes:
Inscriptions/Marks
1.
signature Position:
lower left
Content:
John S. Sargent
2.
date Position: lower
left
Content:
Corfu 1912
3.
label Position:
verso
Content:
R.A., 1926
Documentation
1. (1922)
Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Annual Report for 1922, Cambridge... | GA | igrkio |
 | Two Girls Fishing 1912 Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati, OH |
A painting
of Sargent's two nieces: Rose-Marie and Reine Ormond, during their trip to the
French Alps in 1912 when, according to the Cincinnati Art Museum, they all were
staying in the village of Abriès. The two girls are perched on the side
of an eddy from the cold snow-melt of a mountain stream. They sit crouched,
partly on rocks, in the quiet... | GA | igrkio |
 | Spanish Fountain (1) 1912 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
Spanish Fountain
(Fitzwilliam Museum)
1912
Note:
I'm a bit
confused about this painting. I found another image from Jim's Fine Art called
Spanish Fountain (same image as this and they had it listed at the Brooklyn
Museum:
Spanish
Fountain
1902
Brooklyn
Museum, New York
Watercolor
34.4 x 48.6
cm (13 9/16 x 19... | GA | igrkio |
 | Spanish Fountain (Fitzwilliam Museum) 1912 |
Spanish Fountain
1912
Note:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
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 | A Marble Fountain at Aranjuez 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition --
Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
Sold
Sotheby's; 12/1/1994; Lot 33; $343,500
| GA | igrkio |
 | Escutcheon of Charles V of Spain 1912 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
From: Dan Clarke
Dcl a
rke@ita.lacity.org
Date: Thu,
31 Oct 2002
This work
was done 1912 in Granada, Spain.
It shows simply the relief of the Escutcheon (breastplate) of the family
of Charles V of Spain, and is considered one of their most celebrated
watercolors by Sargent.
Every
review I've read describes it as "brilliant" and... | GA | igrkio |
 | Court of the Lions 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes:
As of
December 31, 1999 the painting was offered for sale at
Adelson
Galleries
The Mark
Hotel
25 East
77th Street
Third
Floor
New York,
New York 10021
Phone:
(212) 439-6800
Email: info@adelsongalleries.com
Provenance
Year
Owner
1987
... | GA | igrkio |
 | A Palace and Gardens, Spain 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From Christie's Lot
Notes
In Sargent's A Palace and Gardens, Spain, the artist chooses
to paint a Baroque facade seen from a distance across a formal garden. The work
is freely sketched, as if the artist sought to capture a fleeting image of sunlight.
On the left, he paints leaves with staccato strokes of green and a hedge with a
broader... | GA | igrkio |
 | Sir William Blake Richmond RA (1842-1921) c. 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes:
Special
thanks to Arthur Saltzman, of Costa Mesa, CA, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for
sending me this image in hard copy.
Exhibitions
1916, Royal
Society of Portrait Painters, hosted at the Grafton Galleries, London. Opened
June, 1916.
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 | Cathedral, Granada, Spain c. 1912 |
Notes:
Bibliography
Catalogue
of Pictures and Water Colour Drawings by J. S. Sargent. R. A., auct. cat.,
Christie, Manson and Woods (London, England, 1925), no. 14
John Singer
Sargent, His Own Work (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
| GA | igrkio |
 | Miss Sybil Sassoon, later Marchioness of Cholmondeley ("Mug") 1912 Witt Library London, UK |
Note
Exhibitions
1916, Royal
Society of Portrait Painters, hosted at the Grafton Galleries, London. Opened
June, 1916.
Lady Sassoon
1907
Sibyl
Sasson-Countess of Rocksavage
1913
The Countess of
Rocksavage,
later Marchioness
of Cholmondeley
1922
| GA | igrkio |
 | Captain George Sitwell Campbell Swinton 1912 Guildhall Library and Guildhall Art Gallery London, UK |
After the
war, Captain Swinton was one of the instrumental men in establishing the
Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle
Mrs. George
Swinton
1897
(wife of Captain
George Swinton)
Captain George Swinton
Photo
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 | Lord Buckhurst (9th Earl De La Warr) 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: "Will Buckhurst"
<will buck
hurst@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002
Natasha,
The drawing
is still privately owned by a member of my family.
In answer
to your questions, the sitter is better known as the 9th Earl De La Warr (whose family gave its name to the US State). This is
the title he succeeded to on his father's... | GA | igrkio |
 | Helen Sears 1912 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Sargent had
painted her as a little girl 17 years previous:
Helen Sears
1895
Notes:
Special
thanks to Arthur Saltzman, of Costa Mesa, CA, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for
sending me this image in hard copy.
| GA | igrkio |
 | Lady Gwendoline Churchill (Lady Gwendoline Theresa Mary Bertie) (1885-1941) 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Spouse of
The Hon. John Strange Spencer-Churchill.
Duke of Marlborough
Family
(9th Duke)
1905
(related someway
through Lady Gwendoline's husband)
| GA | igrkio |
 | Robert Henry Benson 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Robert
Henry Benson (1850-1929) of London and Buckhurst Park, Sussex was a banker. He
served as a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery, London and was an avid
collector, particularly of the Italian renaissance.
He was also
a patron of Sargent's
Notes:
Special
thanks to Arthur Saltzman, of Costa Mesa, CA, a friend of the JSS Gallery,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Kenneth Grahame 1912 Bodleian Library Oxford, UK |
Kenneth
Grahame (1859-1932) born in Edinburgh, he entered the Bank of England in 1879
and would become its Secretary in 1899. In his spare time, he wrote short
stories and articles and would complete the novel "The Wind in The
Willows" in 1908, set in the idyllic English countryside. The work would established his international reputation as a... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Godfrey William Paget Mellor (Norah Alston) 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes:
Special
thanks to Wendy & Gordon Hawksley, of Sheffield,
England, friends of the JSS Gallery, for sending me headsup
on this drawing.
Bibliography
D. McKibben, Sargent's Boston with
an Essay and a Biographical Summary and a complete Check List of Sargent's portraits, Boston, 1956, p. 109.
Sale
Sold at
Christies, London, Nov... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Reginald Grenville Eves (nee Bertha Papillon) 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
Bibliography
David
McKibbin, Sargent's Boston: with an Essay & a Biographical Summary & a
complete Check List of Sargent's portraits, Boston, Massachusetts, 1956, p. 95
Sale
Sold at
Sothebys, New York, 19 May 04, Session 1,
10:15 AM, Sale N07997
lot 9, estimated 30,000—50,000
USD
from the
collection of Mrs.... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Francis Hamilton Mellor 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Mary Hope Mellor
1911
(daughter to Mrs. Francis Hamilton Mellor)
Notes:
Sold
Sold
Christies, 4 June 1999, London, King Stree, £3,220 ($5,354 USD); Sale # 6127, Lot 16, it
was estimated £3,000 - £5,000 ($4,988 - $8,314)
Literature
D.
McKibbon, Sargent's Boston, with a complete check list of Sargent's... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs Alfred Flowler (Eva Neumann) 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
Exhibited
London,
Royal Academy, 1926, no. 444 (lent by A. Fowler Esq.)
Bibliography
William
Howe Downes, John Singer Sargent: His Life and Work, 1926, p. 364
David McKibbin,
Sargent's Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1956, p. 96
Sale:
Sold
Sothebys New York, November 29, 06, Session 2, 2:00 PM, LOT 155, SALE N08249,
Hammer... | GA | igrkio |
 | Theresa ('Nellie') Marchioness of Londonderry 1912 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
From: Matt Davies
<Matt
Davies@jssgallery.org>
Date: 26 July 2004
I recently
purchased a copy of an old book by H. Montgomery Hyde entitled Londonderry
House and its Pictures (Cresset Press Ltd., London, 1937). On page 60 of this
book it gives an entry for each of three works that were then in the possession
of the family of... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Borghese Balustrade Watercolor on paper |
Note:
Special
thanks to Tony Wearing, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for finding this image and
sending it to us
From: Tony Wearing
tony. wea
ring@btinternet.com
Date: Apr
14, 2006
I came
across a picture of the Borghese Balustrade by John Singer Sargent in a book
about Cliveden, home of William Waldorf Astor.
The book is
Cliveden:
The... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
