$10,795
Estimate: $10,000 - $15,000
What Do You See? The Collection of Sidney Rothberg, Part II
Auction: February 28, 2024 at 12 PM ET
Inscribed 'W.M. Chase' verso, oil on canvas laid to board
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5cm)
Newhouse Galleries, New York and St. Louis.
Collection of Leslie Waggener, Jr., Dallas, Texas c. 1935 - 1951.
Nelson Waggener, Dallas, Texas, c. 1951 - 1986.
By decent in the family.
Freeman's, Philadelphia, sale of June 23, 2002, lot 70.
Acquired directly from the above sale.
The Collection of Sidney Rothberg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“Exhibition of the Leslie Waggener Collection of Paintings,” Joseph Sartor Galleries, Dallas, Texas, November 21 - December 6, 1948, no. 28.
“Chase Centennial Exhibition,” John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 1-December 11, 1949.
Wilber D. Peat, "Check List of Known Work by William M. Chase," in Chase Centennial Exhibition, Indianapolis, 1949, p. 66 (listed under ‘Male Figure Studies’ as Tony, not illustrated).
When the work was offered at auction back in 2002, it was accompanied by a Letter of Authenticity written by Ronald G. Pisano.