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Property from a Distinguished New York Collection

William Merritt Chase

A Gypsy Swell

Auction Closed

November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished New York Collection

William Merritt Chase

1849 - 1916


A Gypsy Swell

signed Wm. M. Chase. (lower left); titled and inscribed (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

20 by 16 in.

50.8 by 40.6 cm.

Executed in Madrid in 1905.

Estate of the artist

American Art Galleries New York, 14-17 May 1919, lot 75

J. W. Young, Chicago (acquired from the above)

George C. Calvert, Indianapolis

Mr. and Mrs. Everett M. Schofield, Indianapolis (by 1949)

Sotheby's, New York, 29 November 1990, lot 65

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, 14th Annual Exhibition of American Art, 1907, no. 10, illustrated (as Spanish Gypsy)

Buffalo, The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy; Indianapolis, John Herron Museum of Art; St. Louis Art Museum; Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, A Collection of Oil Paintings by William M. Chase, 1909, no. 15 (as A Spanish Gypsy)

New York, National Arts Club, Exhibition of Paintings by William Merritt Chase, 1910, no. 39

Detroit, Michigan, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Paintings by William M. Chase, N. A., 1916, no. 29

Indianapolis, John Herron Art Museum, Chase Memorial Exhibition, 1949, no. 52

"The Paintings by Mr. Chase," Academy Notes, vol. VI, issue 9, February 1909, p. 146 (as A Spanish Gypsy)

Ronald G. Pisano, The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), vol. 2, New Haven 2010, no. OP.450, pp. 220-21, illustrated (as A Spanish Gypsy/A Gypsy Swell)