A Lady in Red

Details

William Merritt Chase (1849-1916)
A Lady in Red
signed 'Chase.' (center left)
oil on canvas
20¼ x 16¼ in. (51.4 x 41.3 cm.)
Painted in 1902.

Provenance

Estate of the artist.
Sale: American Art Galleries, New York, 4 May 1917, no. 265.
Mr. and Mrs. James Keith Symmers, Rye, New York, acquired from the above.
Mrs. Lambert Davis, daughter of the above, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
[With]Zabriskie Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1979.

Literature

American Art Association, Catalogue of The Completed Pictures Studies and Sketches Left by the Late William Merritt Chase, N.A., New York, 1917, no. 265.
W. Peat, The Checklist of Known Work, exhibition catalogue, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1949 (as Girl in Red).
University Gallery, University of Delaware, Brandywine Valley to the Bay: Art From Private Collections, exhibition catalogue, Wilmington, Delaware, 1991, p. 25, illustrated.
R.G. Pisano and A.G. Longwell, Photographs from the William Merritt Chase Archives at the Parrish Art Museum, exhibition catalogue, Southampton, New York, 1992, no. 597.

Exhibited

Wilmington, Delaware, University Gallery, University of Delaware, Brandywine Valley to the Bay: Art From Private Collections, October 3-November 3, 1991.

Lot Essay

According to Mr. Frederick Baker, the present work was a demonstration piece, painted for a class attending the final summer of the Shinnecock Summer School of Art in Southampton, New York. A photograph of A Lady in Red, which was given to the Chase Archives of The Parrish Art Museum by Ronald G. Pisano, has a reference to Miss Hall on the reverse, who is the likely sitter.

According to Mr. Frederick Baker, this portrait is included in Ronald G. Pisano's The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), vol. II, no. 360, to be published in April 2007.

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