JOHN LA FARGE | SELU'S DAUGHTER (ANOTHER STANDING DANCE)

Property from the Collection of Willard and Elizabeth Clark
JOHN LA FARGE
1835 - 1910
SELU'S DAUGHTER (ANOTHER STANDING DANCE)

titled Selu's Daughter (lower center)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
image: 10 ¾ by 13 ¾ inches (27.3 by 34.9 cm)
sheet: 8 ⅜ by 13 ½ inches (21.3 by 34.3 cm)
Executed in 1890.

Condition Report:
The sheet is hinged to the support at two places on reverse at top edge. The sheet is slightly toned and there is some possible fading in the sky. There are several inscriptions in the margins. There are a few pindots of possible minor foxing in the sky.

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Provenance:
Doll & Richards, Boston, Massachusetts

Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York

Mrs. Samuel Dennis (Susan Cornelia Clarke) Warren, Boston, Massachusetts

Samuel Dennis Warren Jr. (her son), 1902

Mrs. Joseph Gardner (Mabel B. Warren) Bradley (his daughter), Boston, Massachusetts, 1910

Joseph Gardner Bradley, Boston, Massachusetts (her husband), 1961

Mrs. Ferdinand F. (Mabel Bradley) Colloredo-Mansfield (his daughter), Boston, Massachusetts, 1972

Sold: Christie’s, New York, December 8, 1978, lot 92

Thomas Colville Fine Art, Guilford, Connecticut (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1979