Lot 63: John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
The Piazzetta with Gondolas
watercolor and pencil on paper
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1902-04.

New York, Adelson Galleries, and elsewhere, Sargent's Venice, January 15-March 3, 2007.

Sargent Trust List, "Water Colours. Unframed," 1927, p. 6, no. 29, unpublished (as Venice. Piazzetta. Pink column in centre, white figure on left. Mass of Gondolas).
D.S. Janis, "Venice" in W. Adelson, et al., Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes, New York, 1997, pp. 199, 201, pl. 202, illustrated.
W. Adelson, et al., Sargent's Venice, exhibition catalogue, New Haven, Connecticut, 2006, pp. 111-13, no. 108, illustrated.
W. Adelson, et al., Sargent and Venice, Milan, Italy, 2007, pp. 75, 84, illustrated.
R. Ormond, E. Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1898-1913, Complete Paintings, vol. VI, New Haven, Connecticut, 2009, p. 102, no. 1057, illustrated (as Piazzetta with Gondolas (Venice. Piazzetta)).

The artist.
Violet Sargent Ormond, sister of the above, London, gift from the above.
By descent to the present owner.

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
The Piazzetta with Gondolas
watercolor and pencil on paper
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1902-04.