Fresh-to-market John Singer Sargent watercolours emerge at Skinner auction
Two watercolours by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) that have been in a private American collection for nearly a century have emerged will be offered at an auction in Boston this week. One of them was described in the artist’s catalogue raisonée as “one of the most subtle and beautiful of Sargent’s architectural studies”.
They both date from a period when the artist turned away from painting the high-society portraits th…