Stolen Art DealerOil painting by John Singer Sargent, dated 1913, titled Girl Fishing. No further description of the image is available from the auction house.
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Catalogue No. 1556 · Christie's · New York
Girl Fishing
About $6.1 million in today’s money: 70 years of the typical US household’s income. Source
- Artist
- John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)
- Title
- Girl Fishing
- Date
- 1913
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 49.6 x 71.8 cm (19 1/2 x 28 1/4 in.)
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), the American painter, made Girl Fishing in 1913. It is an oil on canvas measuring 49.6 by 71.8 centimetres (19 1/2 by 28 1/4 inches). Christie's lot page carries no essay on the picture, so no description of the composition is available from the auction house.
The painting was sold at Christie's New York on 18 June 2014, as lot 100 in the sale An American Dynasty: The Clark Family Treasures. The estimate was $3,000,000–5,000,000. Christie's results page states that its sold prices include the buyer's premium, and the price realised was $4,309,000.
The recorded provenance begins with the artist. M. Knoedler & Co. in London acquired the picture from Sargent in 1913, and Charles S. Carstairs owned it in 1914. It later belonged to Daniel Farr of Philadelphia and then to Stephen C. Clark of New York. Knoedler, by then in New York, acquired it from Clark in 1929, and Anna Eugenia La Chapelle of New York owned it that year. It then passed by descent to the late owner.
The sale
- Auction house
- Christie's, New York
- Date
- 18 June 2014
- Lot
- 100
- Estimate
- $3,000,000–5,000,000
- Sold for
- $4.3 million (including buyer’s premium) · $4,309,000
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Provenance
1913
The artist; M. Knoedler & Co., London, acquired from the above, 1913
1914
Charles S. Carstairs
Undated
Daniel Farr, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Undated
Stephen C. Clark, New York
1929
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, acquired from the above, 1929
1929
Anna Eugenia La Chapelle, New York, 1929; by descent to the late owner
2014-06-18
Sold at Christie's New York, An American Dynasty: The Clark Family Treasures, lot 100
Sources
- Christie's, lot 100, John Singer Sargent, Girl Fishing
- Christie's, Results - An American Dynasty: The Clark Family Treasures (18 June 2014)
- Christie's, Post-sale release: An American Dynasty: The Clark Family Treasures achieves $8.5 million
Prices include the buyer’s premium, in US dollars at the time of sale, unless marked as a hammer price.