Special thanks to Colleen Kollar Zorn, with A.J. Kollar Fine Paintings LLC, of Seattle,
Washington USA, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending along a better image.
"A Lady" 1880 Sold by a Museum?
From: B cca esq@aol.com
Date: 10/10/99
I was wondering whether you could direct me to more information on John Singer Sargent's "A Lady". I've tried to track it down a number of ways, and found out it was in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO, but that's all I know. I am trying to find out the name of the woman, and information on who she was. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
From: Natasha
Boy, that's sure news to me. I live close to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and I didn't know they had it.
[later]
Apparently it WAS owned by the Nelson, but they have since sold it. A book at the Nelson Atkins book store tells that the painting is inscribed with Sargent's hand: "To Ben del Castillo" a childhood friend of Sargent's. He would paint Ben's wife, Countess Laura Spinola Nunez del Castillo, in 1896. The book only said that the identity of the lady was never discovered.
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Countess Laura Spinola Nunez del Castillo 1896 (wife to Ben del Castillo) |
From: Colleen Kollar Zorn
co ll een@ajkollar.com
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004
[Natasha, "A Lady" is now] in the private collection of A.J. Kollar Fine Paintings, Seattle, Washington
