Three paintings by John Singer Sargent from the collection of Carol and Terry Wall will be auctioned at Christie’s this fall, with a combined estimate of $12 million to $17 million. The works—Capri (1878), Corner of the Church of San Stae, Venice (1913), and Gondolier’s Siesta (1902-03)—depict Italian scenes and will be part of the 20th century evening sales in New York in November. The collection also includes works by Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, Frederick Frieseke, and William Merritt Chase, and will be previewed in Paris, London, and Taipei.
The sale follows the success of the recent Sargent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Musée d’Orsay, underscoring sustained market demand for the artist. The Wall collection, built since the 1990s, represents a focused turn-of-the-century American painting collection, and its dispersal offers insight into current tastes and values for that period.