Jun 08, 2006 - Sale 2082

Sale 2082 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 17,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
JOHN LAFARGE
A Memory of the South Seas.

Goauche and watercolor on wove paper mounted on illustration board. 370x235 mm; 14 1/2x9 1/4 inches. Signed in watercolor, lower right. Sold at Sale of the Art Property of John La Farge, American Art Galleries, New York, 1911, catalogue number 565, with the title After the Bath, A Memory of the South Seas. Ex-collection C. W. Kraushaar, New York, and W. R. Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, 1934.

Exhibited at M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1909, catalogue number 77, and Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1943, catalogue number 34, with the title After the Bath.