WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE (1849-1916)
18.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1508101
Lot 424 | WILLIAM MERRITT CHASE (1849-1916)
Estimate value
500000USD $ 500 000 – 700 000
Beach Scene (Morning at Canoe Place)
signed 'Wm M. Chase.' (lower left)
oil on panel
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm.)
Painted circa 1896
Provenance
Victor Spark, New York.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, June 1945).
Polly Brooks Howe, New York (acquired from the above, March 1946, then by descent).
Adelson Galleries, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owners, January 1998.
Literature
W. Peat, "Check List of Known Works by William M. Chase" in Chase Centennial Exhibition, exh. cat., John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, 1949.
D. Davis, The Secret Lives of Frames: One Hundred Years of Art and Artistry, New York, 2007, p. 202 (illustrated in color).
(probably) G. Lawrence and A. Surchin, Houses of the Hamptons: 1880-1930, New York, 2007, p. 77.
R.G. Pisano, William Merritt Chase: Landscapes in Oil, New Haven, 2009, vol. III, p. 118 no. L.241 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
(possibly) The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by William M. Chase, November-December 1897, no. 33.
New York, Adelson Galleries, The American Impressionists, November-December 1996, no. 8 (illustrated in color on the cover).
Huntington, Heckscher Museum of Art, The Golden Age of American Impressionism, November 2003-February 2004, p. 44 (illustrated in color, p. 47, pl. 13).
New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., Chase Inside and Out: The Aesthetic Interiors of William Merritt Chase, November 2004-January 2005, p. 172 (illustrated in color, p. 155, pl. 34).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Sargent, Chase, Cassatt: Master Paintings from a Private Collection, July-September 2006.
Montclair Art Museum, A Shared Love: Treasures of American Painting (1878-1919) from the Carol and Terry Wall Collection, May 2024-February 2025.
| Artist: | William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Marine art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | William Merritt Chase (1849 - 1916) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Genre: | Marine art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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