Jun 13, 2013 - Sale 2318

Sale 2318 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 9,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
JANE PETERSON
Campo Santa Margherita, Venice.

Gouache, watercolor and charcoal on tan wove paper, 1923. 450x600 mm; 17 3/4x23 1/2 inches. Signed in ink, lower right recto.

Peterson was an extremely well-traveled individual for an American female artist at the time. She toured extensively in England and France during the early 1900s and, in 1909, she ventured to Madrid, to study under Joaquin Sorolla, before continuing on through Egypt and Algeria. Venice and its colorful, sun-bathed views was likely a favorite subject for Peterson, allowing her to develope her post-Impressionistic style of painting (she is often linked stylistically to fellow American artist Maurice Prendergast). She studied in Venice between 1908 and 1909 under the English artist Frank Brangwyn.