Three paintings by John Singer Sargent (American artist who spent his whole life in Europe) will be included in many for sale at Christie this fall. The work, which was collected from the collections of Carol and Terry Wall, is expected to earn $12 million to $17 million in November’s 20th-century evening sales at auction houses.
The trio of the work depicts all the scenes in Italy, and Sargent was born from a foreign parent in the United States: Capri (1878), estimated at $40,000-6 million; The corner of the church of St. Stee in Venice (1913), $60,000-80,000; and Nap in the Orchid (1902-03), US$20,000-30,000. “Pursuing Light: Carol and the Collection of Terry Walls” also includes paintings by Mary Cassatt, Child Hassam, Frederick Frisk and William Merritt Chase.
All three paintings will be viewed this fall in Christie’s Paris (September 23-3), London (October 8-9) and Taipei (October 18-19). The Wall Collection auction follows the success of “Sargent and Paris” exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York earlier this year. It held the “Sargent’s dazzling Paris” on September 23 in Musée D’Orsay, Paris.
Carol and Terry Wall began collecting art in the 1990s, with a focus on the turn of the century.
