The following description has been prepared entirely by the current owner, Roberts S. Fastov, Esq., and, at the collector’s request, has not been edited by Sloans & Kenyon

Note 1): At the outset of his career, Potter was, a pure Impressionist painter who lived and worked in Connecticut and Rockport, Massachusetts. He was associated with the Rockport Art Association, Salmagundi Club and the Salons of America. He exhibited in many prestigious institutions and organizations, including the foregoing and the Art Institute of Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., National Academy of Design, N.Y. and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and his artistic métier included the following types of paintings, figures, landscapes, marine, maritime, nautical, boats and seascapes. As this attractive painting makes clear, early in his career, at age 29, he painted in a classical French Impressionist style, but used a selection of very bold, high key pigments in laying in the multitudinous short Impressionist brush strokes in this painting, in which the myriad Impressionist combinations of color as laid in meticulously in this painting, render it first class and appeals to most Impressionist aficionados. Thus, this Potter painting should be regarded as a very interesting and appealing work of art. Of the 22 reported Potter works that have been auctioned, per Askart.com, none of them was an Impressionist work painted by Potter at the outset of his career, manifesting the characteristics of this very appealing work of art. A significant number of Potter's later work is much different and not as appealing. The above presale estimate of $1,500-$3,000 discounts many of these inferior paintings and, instead was influenced by the such of his higher key palette and more Impressionist painting sales, as set forth below. This offering of the Potter's “St. John’s Well, Villeneuve, France, 1912” provides a lover of Impressionist art to acquire a rare early work by Potter, which is very appealing in terms of his short, somewhat choppy Impressionist brush work and vibrant, original coloring at a price that is much lower than that of many of his contemporary and more famous Impressionist artists.

Title/Subject: Cityscape Signed. Oil on canvas. 31.50 in. x 39 in. sold for $2,800 on 5/7/2010 at Treadway/Toomey, Oak Park, IL

Title/Subject: St. Michel-Palma Mallorca Signed. Oil on canvas. 15.75 in. x 12.50 in. sold for $1,200 on 3/17/2007 at Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Hillsborough, NC

Title/Subject: Still Life with Flowers Signed. Oil on canvas. 24 in. x 20 in. sold for $1,500 on 4/22/2006 at Stair Galleries, Hudson, NY

Title/Subject: Fishing Schooner, Gloucester Signed. Oil on canvas. 25 in. x 20 in. sold for $4,000 on 5/27/2005 at : Rockport Art Association, Annual Auction, Rockport, MA