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Property Sold to Benefit an Educational Foundation

John La Farge

Figure in Oriental Dress

Lot closes

October 9, 03:58 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Starting Bid

7,000 USD

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Description

Property Sold to Benefit an Educational Foundation

John La Farge

1835 - 1910


Figure in Oriental Dress

watercolor and pencil on paper

13 ¼ by 10 ⅜ in.

33.7 by 26.4 cm.

Executed in 1883-84.

New York, Ortgies & Co., 17 April 1884, lot 10

Harcourt Amory, Boston

Christie’s, New York, 1 December 1989, lot 80

Thomas Colville Fine Art, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York

Private Collection, Virginia (probably acquired from the above)

Leah and Richard Waitzer Foundation, Virginia (acquired as a gift from the above by 2019)

Acquired as a gift from the above by the present owner

New York, Century Association, 1884 (titled Figure in Oriental Dress)

New York, Moore’s Art Gallery, Paintings by John La Farge, 1885, no. 22 (titled Woman in Oriental dress, leaning on her right arm.—Study from Nature.)

Chicago, Interstate Industrial Exposition, 1888, no. 231 (titled Figure in Oriental Dress)

Boston, Doll & Richards, Drawings, Watercolors, and Paintings by Mr. John La Farge on Exhibition and Sale, 1890, no. 53 (titled Woman in Oriental Dress—leaning against wall. Study from nature.)