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Margarett Sargent (American, 1892-1978) Untitled (Seated Woman with Sculpture)

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Auction: Discovery - 3019TLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: July 13, 2017 10:00AM

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Margarett Sargent (American, 1892-1978)

Untitled (Seated Woman with Sculpture)
. Unsigned, identified and dated "...c. 1931" on two labels from Berry Hill Gallery, New York, affixed to the frame backing. Ink and gouache on paper, sight size 13 x 11 in., framed. Condition: Not examined out of frame.

Provenance: The estate of Elaine Sargent, New York.

Exhibitions: Margarett Sargent, September 12-October 5, 1996, Berry-Hill Galleries Inc., New York.

N.B. Margarett Sargent was a Massachusetts painter of portraits and figure studies and fourth cousin to noted artist John Singer Sargent. She stopped exhibiting around 1936, and her work was not widely known until after her death, when Berry-Hill Gallery in New York mounted a retrospective of her paintings in 1996. More recently, Margarett Sargent's work was included in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhibition A Studio of Her Own, in the fall of 2001.
Estimate $700-900


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