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The most expensive Sargent ever sold

The most expensive Sargent ever sold is Group with Parasols: $23.5 million at Sotheby's New York in 2004. Famous works such as Portrait of Madame X, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose and The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit are in public collections, so they are not for sale and have no price.

Lived
1856–1925
From
American
Movement
Realism · Impressionism
Worked in
Paris · London · Boston
Portrait of John Singer Sargent
Sargent's record$23.5MGroup with Parasols · 2004

Sargent's famous works and their prices

  • Portrait of Madame X by John Singer SargentPortrait of Madame X1884 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkNot for sale
  • Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose by John Singer SargentCarnation, Lily, Lily, Rose1886 · Tate Britain, LondonNot for sale
  • The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by John Singer SargentThe Daughters of Edward Darley Boit1882 · Museum of Fine Arts, BostonNot for sale
  • Lady Agnew of Lochnaw by John Singer SargentLady Agnew of Lochnaw1892 · Scottish National Gallery, EdinburghNot for sale
  • El Jaleo by John Singer SargentEl Jaleo1882 · Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, BostonNot for sale
  • Gassed by John Singer SargentGassed1919 · Imperial War Museum, LondonNot for sale

“Not for sale” means a public collection holds the work. Prices are nominal US dollars as reported at the time.

Sargent next to other artists

Each artist's highest documented sale, from the same research.

  1. Constable$35.2MThe Lock · 2012
  2. Pissarro$32.1MLe Boulevard Montmartre, matinée de printemps · 2014
  3. Vermeer$30.1MA Young Woman Seated at the Virginals · 2004
  4. Michelangelo$27.2MStudy for the right foot of the Libyan Sibyl · 2026
  5. Sargent$23.5MGroup with Parasols · 2004
  6. Toulouse-Lautrec$22.4MLa Blanchisseuse · 2005
  7. Velázquez$17MSaint Rufina · 2007
  8. Goya$16.4MPortraits of Doña María Vicenta Barruso Valdés and Doña Leonora Antonia Valdés de Barruso · 2023
  9. El Greco$14MSaint Dominic in Prayer · 2013

Bars are to scale within this list. Source for Sargent's record: antiquesandthearts.com.

About John Singer Sargent

American portrait painter, born in Florence to American parents and resident in Europe for nearly all his life. The hostile reception of "Portrait of Madame X" at the 1884 Paris Salon pushed him out of Paris, and from 1886 he worked in London as the leading society portraitist of his generation. He largely gave up commissioned portraits after 1907 and gave more of his time to watercolour, of which he made more than 2,000 across his career, and to the mural cycles he had begun for the Boston Public Library in the 1890s and continued at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. As an official war artist he painted "Gassed" in 1919, a canvas six metres wide showing a line of blinded soldiers.

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Questions

What is the most expensive Sargent ever sold?

Group with Parasols, which sold for $23.5 million at Sotheby's New York in 2004. Prices are nominal US dollars as reported at the time.

How much is a Sargent painting worth?

It depends on the work. The highest documented sale is $23.5 million for Group with Parasols. Works in public collections are not for sale.

Where can I see Sargent's paintings?

Among the works here: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Tate Britain, London, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

Who was John Singer Sargent?

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925). American portrait painter, born in Florence to American parents and resident in Europe for nearly all his life. The hostile reception of "Portrait of Madame X" at the 1884 Paris Salon pushed him out of Paris, and from 1886 he worked in London as the leading society portraitist of his generation. He largely gave up commissioned portraits after 1907 and gave more of his time to watercolour, of which he made more than 2,000 across his career, and to the mural cycles he had begun for the Boston Public Library in the 1890s and continued at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. As an official war artist he painted "Gassed" in 1919, a canvas six metres wide showing a line of blinded soldiers.

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