Lot 31
  • 31

William Merritt Chase 1849 - 1916

Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
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Description

  • William Merritt Chase
  • The Blown Thistle, Long Island
  • signed Wm. M. Chase lower right; also signed W.M. Chase, titled The Blown Thistle Long Island and dated 1902 on the reverse
  • oil on panel
  • 12 by 18 inches
  • (30.5 by 45.7 cm)

Provenance

Macbeth Galleries, New York
Julius Oehme, New York
John B. Dennis (sold: American Art Association, New York, January 23, 1924, lot 27, illustrated)
Howard W. Starr (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection, circa 1970
By descent to the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Feragil Galleries, Paintings by William M. Chase, 1927, no. 20 (as Blown Thistle)

Literature

Wilber D. Peat, "Check List of Known Work by William M. Chase," Chase Centennial Exhibition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1949
Ronald G. Pisano, William Merritt Chase: Landscapes in Oil, The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), New Haven, Connecticut, 2009, vol. 3, no. L.278, p. 134, illustrated