Head of a Spaniard, 1905

Provenance

Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York
Argentina Hills, Miami, Florida, 1994, from above
Private collection, by descent
Sale, Phillips, New York, New York, May 21, 2026, lot 231, from above
Private collection, New York, New York, from above

Exhibited

A collection of oil paintings by William M. Chase, N.A., Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, January 15-February 14, 1909; Art Association of Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 3-28, 1909; City Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, opened April 11, 1909; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 9-November 6, 1909
Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York, Past and Present: Two Hundred Years of American Painting, Part Two: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, 1966, no. 190 (as Spanish Gypsy)

Literature

Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, A Collection of Oil Paintings by William M. Chase, N.A. (Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1909).
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Academy Notes 4, no. 9 (1909): 146, 148, illustrated.
Kennedy Galleries, “Past and Present: Two Hundred Years of American Painting, Part Two: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” The Kennedy Quarterly 6, no. 4 (October 1966): 200, no. 190, illustrated. (as Spanish Gypsy)
Kennedy Galleries, The Kennedy Quarterly – Price List 6, no. 4 (October 1966): no. 190. (as Gypsy)
Ronald G. Pisano, D. Frederick Baker, and Carolyn K. Lane, William Merritt Chase: Portraits in Oil, Volume II: The Complete Catalogue of Known and Documented Work by William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) (Yale University Press, 2006): 220, no. OP.449, illustrated.

Related Works

A Spanish Gypsy, 1905, oil on canvas, 19¾ x 16 inches, signed center right: Chase; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

Note

This painting is included in the catalogue raisonné of William Merritt Chase’s work by Ronald G. Pisano (no. OP.449).