14th Anniversary Preview

W ILLIAM V AREIKA F INE A RTS L TD T HE N EWPORT G ALLERY OF A MERICAN A RT % (//(98( $ 9(18( ‡ 1 (:3257 5 +2'( , 6/$1' 7 ‡ ) ‡ www.vareikafinearts.com ‡ info@vareikafinearts.com J OHN L A F ARGE (1835-1910) We currently number over fifty paintings, drawings, watercolors and prints by John La Farge in our extensive inventory of American art spanning three centuries of our culture. We are always interested in purchasing artworks by John La Farge. “Thinking again about the pictures of flowers which I used to paint . . . Some few were paintings of the water lily, which has, as you know, always appealed to the sense of something of a meaning -- a mysterious appeal such as comes to us from certain arrangements of notes of music.” John La Farge Water Lilies in a White Bowl, with Red Table-Cover 1859 Oil on board 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches Water Lilies in White Water -- Study of Faint Sunlight circa 1884 Watercolor and gouache on paper 9 1/8 x 11 3/8 inches These John La Farge water lily artworks were both owned in the late 19th century by Edward William Hooper of Boston, one of the artist’s greatest patrons. They are being offered for sale as a pair. This marks the first time that the watercolor has been on the market since 1885 and the first time that the two artworks have been together since 1936 when they were loaned by two of Hooper’s daughters to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s John La Farge exhibition. Extensive provenance, exhibition and literature record available.