JOHN LA FARGE | BLUE IRIS, STUDY

Property of a Private Midwestern Collection
JOHN LA FARGE
1835 - 1910
BLUE IRIS, STUDY

watercolor on paper
10 ¾ by 9 inches
(27.3 by 22.9 cm)
Executed in 1879.

Condition Report:
The sheet is hinged to the support at three places along the reverse of the top edge and there is minor staining at the extreme edges.

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Provenance:
The artist (sold: Leonard's Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, December 18, 1879, lot 3)

Henry Lee Higginson (acquired at the above sale)

James Jackson Higginson (his brother, gift from the above)

By descent

Oliver Claxton (acquired from the above)

Margaret G. Fiske (acquired from the above)

Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts

Jerald Dillon Fessenden, by 1987

The Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York, by 1995