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Lot 69
  • 69

William Merritt Chase 1849 - 1916

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • William Merritt Chase
  • Wheat Field
  • signed Wm. M. Chase and dedicated To My friend St. John ..., l.r.
  • oil on canvas
  • 32 by 48 1/4 in.
  • (81.3 by 122.6 cm)
  • Painted circa 1884.

Provenance

Sale: American Art Galleries, New York, March 2-26, 1915
Henry Schultheis (acquired at the above sale)
Holland Galleries, New York
John F. Braun, Merion, Pennsylvania (sold: Kende Galleries, New York, January 16, 1942, illustrated)
Renaissance Galleries, New York, 1951
Acquired by the present owner from the above (probably)

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1930

Literature

Wilber D. Peat, "Check List of Known Work by William M. Chase," Chase Centennial Exhibition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1949 (as Wheat Field)
Ronald G. Pisano, William Merritt Chase: Landscapes in Oil, vol. 3, New Haven, Connecticut, 2009, no. L45, illustrated p. 28