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William Merritt Chase

Portrait of a Young Woman

Auction Closed

April 20, 12:24 AM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

William Merritt Chase

1849 - 1916

Portrait of a Young Woman



signed Chase. (center right)

watercolor and pencil on paper

14¾ x 10⅜ in. (37.5 x 26.3 cm.)

Executed circa 1880.

Moses Van Brink, Mount Vernon, New York
M.R. Schweitzer Gallery, New York (acquired in 1963)
Margaret & Raymond Horowitz, New York
Adelson Galleries, Inc., New York
Wolf Family Collection No. 1242 (acquired from the above on November 4, 2005)
M.G. van Rensselaer, "The Water-Color Exhibition, New York," The American Architect and Building News, 1881, vol. 9, no. 273, p. 35
Ronald G. Pisano, The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), vol. I, New Haven, 2006, no. W.6, p. 72, illustrated
New York, American Water Color Society, 14th Annual Exhibition, 1881, no. 243, n.p., illustrated
Santa Barbara, California, University of California, The Art Gallery, The First West Coast Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by William Merritt Chase, 1964-65, no. 23, n.p., illustrated
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America, 1966-67, no. 99
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., William Merritt Chase, 1976, no. 94, n.p.
Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, William Merritt Chase Retrospective, 1983-84, p. 45
New York, Spanierman Gallery, Master of American Impressionism, 1994-95, no. 2
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, American Impressionism and Realism: The Margaret and Raymond Horowitz Collection, 1999, no. 12, pp. 56-57, illustrated
New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., Chase Inside and Out: The Aesthetic Interiors of William Merritt Chase, 2004-05, pl. 23, p. 144, illustrated
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent, 2017, fig. 164, pp. 196-97, illustrated