William Merritt Chase
Double Portrait: A Sketch (Sketch for the Portrait of Mother and Child)
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March 16, 05:14 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
William Merritt Chase
1849 - 1916
Double Portrait: A Sketch (Sketch for the Portrait of Mother and Child)
signed Chase (upper left); titled Sketch for portrait of / mother + child and signed W.M. Chase (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
22 by 15 in.
56 by 38 cm.
Executed circa 1915.
Estate of the artist
American Art Galleries, New York, 14 May 1917, lot 73 (consigned by the above)
Private collection
Berry-Hill Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above in 1997 by the present owner
Ronald G. Pisano, William Merritt Chase: Portraits in Oil; The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), vol. II, New Haven, Connecticut, 2006, no. OP.582, pp. 272-73, illustrated