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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 21, 2009 | Sotheby's | New York | American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture | 74 | $****** - ****** | Miss J. (Portrait Of Miss J; Portrait - Content Johnson) |
paintings
162.6 x 102.2 cm (64.02 x 40.24 in)
oil on canvas
signed Wm. M. Chase, u.r.
Mrs. Johnson (presumably Augusta Adelaide Johnson, the sitter's mother), 1903. Miss Content Aline Johnson. Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, 1949 (bequest from the above).
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1996
New York, Union League Club of New York, Portraits of Americans, February 1903, no. 5. New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Portraits by W.M. Chase, March 1903, no. 8. New York, National Arts Club, William Merritt Chase Retrospective Exhibition, January 1910, no. 4. Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Art and Fashion: Marie Antoinette to Jacqueline Kennedy, May-August 2006. Greenwich, Connecticut, Chase vs. Henri: The Battle over American Modernism, January-April 2007
New York Times, March 21, 1905, SM3, illustrated. J. Walker McSpadden, Famous Paintings of America, New York, 1907, illustrated opposite p. 336. Wilbur Peat, "Checklist of Known Works by William Merritt Chase," Chase Centennial Exhibition, Indianapolis, Indiana, John Herron Art Museum, 1949 (as Content Johnson). Winifred Shilds, "A Portrait by William Merritt Chase is Willed to the Nelson Gallery," Kansas City Star, January 19, 1951, p. 23. Ross E. Taggert and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, 1973, vol. I, p. 251. Keith L. Bryant, Jr., William Merritt Chase: A Genteel Bohemian, New York, 1991, p. 297, f.n. 3 (incorrectly implies that this was a demonstration piece by Chase rather than a commissioned portrait). Ronald G. Pisano, William Merritt Chase, Portraits in Oil, New Haven, Connecticut, 2006, p. 176-177, illustrated in color
