Sold by the Art Institute of Chicago
Arthur B. Davies
Semele
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December 16, 05:25 PM GMT
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Sold by the Art Institute of Chicago
Arthur B. Davies
1862 - 1928
Semele
signed A.B. Davies (lower left)
oil on canvas
8 by 14¾ in.
20.3 by 37.5 cm.
Executed in 1907.
Macbeth Galleries, New York (acquired by 1921)
Mr. Martin A. Ryerson and Mrs. Carrie Ryerson, Chicago (acquired from the above by 1931)
Art Institute of Chicago (by bequest from the above in 1933)
New York, Macbeth Galleries, Fourth Exhibition of "Intimate Paintings," 1920, no. 20
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Arthur B. Davies, 1930, no. 76, p. 12, illustrated
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Special Memorial Exhibition of Works by the Late Arthur B. Davies, 1930, no. 1
Royal Cortissoz, Arthur B. Davies, New York, 1931, p. 32
“Arthur Bowen Davies—Painter and Graver,” Index of Twentieth Century Artists 4, issue 5, February 1937
