ID 1360492
Lot 217 | WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE (1849-1916)
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
Flower Beds, Central Park
signed 'Wm M. Chase.' (lower left)
oil on cradled panel
9 x 12 ¾ in.(22.9 x 32.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1890.
Provenance
The artist.
Sale: Ortgies & Co., New York, 6 March 1891, lot 49.
(Possibly) L. Crist Delmonico, acquired from the above.
Hermann Schaus, Rhode Island, (possibly) acquired from the above.
Private collection, Newport, Rhode Island, by descent from the above.
Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2012.
Literature
“Some Questions of Art. Pictures by Mr. William M. Chase,” Sun, March 1, 1891, p. 14 (as Flower Beds).
B.D. Gallati, William Merritt Chase: Modern American Landscapes, 1886-1890, Brooklyn, New York, 1999, p. 172.
R.G. Pisano, William Merritt Chase: Landscapes in Oil, vol. III, New Haven, Connecticut, 2009, p. 76, no. L.154.
Exhibited
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887-1920, February 12-May 24, 2015.
| Artist: | William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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