Wild Olive Tree Roots, Valldemosa, Majorca

Provenance

Estate of the artist; (his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 24 and 27 July 1925, first day, no. 105); (M. Knoedler & Company, London and New York) on joint account with (T.H. Robinson); sold 1958 to Thomas K. Ware; by inheritance 1963 to his wife, Lenore Caldwell Woodcock, Huntington, New York;[1] (Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 25 April 1980, no. 77); private collection, Brookline, Massachusetts; (Jeffrey R. Brown Fine Arts, North Amherst, Massachusetts), in 1981; Virginia Bailey Brown, North Amherst, Massachusetts;[2] gift/purchase 1991 to NGA. [1] Mrs. Ware's second husband was William A. Woodcock, and they lent the painting to the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York, from August 1967 to March 1974 (letter of 26 August 1996 and telephone call of 19 February 1997 from William Titus, registrar, Heckscher Museum of Art [in NGA curatorial files]). [2] The painting was briefly discussed in _An American Gallery, Spring 1987_ (Richard York Gallery, New York, 1987), no. 15. This dealer handled the sale of the painting for its last private owner.

Wild Olive Tree Roots, Valldemosa, Majorca

Sargent, John Singer

1908

Accession Number

1991.177.1

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 55.8 x 71.1 cm (21 15/16 x 28 in.) | framed: 80.7 x 96.5 x 5.4 cm (31 3/4 x 38 x 2 1/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Avalon Fund and Gift of Virginia Bailey Brown