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JOHN WHITE ALEXANDER (1856-1915)
Le Piano
signed and dated 'John W. Alexander- 94.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 43 1/2 in. (80 x 110.5 cm.)
Painted in 1894
Provenance
Edward Herbert Hall by 1915.
Gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut.
William J. Dobri, Jr., Fairfield, Connecticut, acquired from the above, circa 1985.
Sotheby's, New York, 4 December 2002, lot 23, sold by the above.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
Archives of American Art, John White Alexander Papers, box 2, folder 10, frames 10, 64, 81-82; folder 12, frame 30.
"Art Notes," New York Times, April 19, 1894.
Galignani, April 24, 1894.
A. Alexandre, Le Paris, April 24, 1894.
Le Rappel, April 25, 1894.
Le Figaro, April 26, 1894.
Petit Moniteur, April 27, 1894.
Le Temps, April 27, 1894.
Le Conseiller des Mères, May 1, 1894.
Le Journal des Arts, May 6, 1894.
Menestrel, May 6, 1894.
Alceste, May 8, 1894.
Chicago Herald, October 25, 1894.
Milwaukee Sentinel, November 4, 1894;
Brooklyn Eagle, 1894.
L. Monroe, "Chicago Letter," The Critic, 1894.
Chicago Record, 1894.
R.H. Sherard, "American Artists in Paris," The Magazine of Art, April 1895, illustrated.
Commercial Gazatte, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 28, 1895.
A. Hoeber, "John W. Alexander," Harper's Weekly, November 9, 1895, illustrated.
"The Art Exhibition of Pittsburgh," The Independent, November 14, 1895.
The Pittsburgh Bulletin, 1895, illustrated.
"Honored An Artist," Pittsburgh Dispatch, December 10, 1895.
Record, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 29, 1895.
Europe Artiste, May 6, 1896.
Écho du Nord, Lille, France, February 16, 1898.
H. Morris, "The Portrait of John W. Alexander," Scribner's Magazine, March 25, 1899, p. 341, illustrated.
G. Mourey, The Studio, London, July 1900.
G. Mourey, International Studio, August 1900.
S. Hartmann, A History of American Art, vol. 2, Boston, Massachusetts, 1901, p. 174.
"Gossip at Home and Abroad," Chicago Post, January 1, 1902.
New York Times, January 3, 1902.
New York Journal, January 3, 1902.
New York Evening Telegram, January 4, 1902.
"Art Display In New York," New York Herald, Paris, France, January 4, 1902.
New York Staats Zeitung, January 5, 1902.
New York Sun, January 8, 1902.
Washington Post, January 8, 1902.
Town Topics, January 9, 1902.
New York Evening Post, January 9, 1902.
American, January 9, 1902.
Town & Country, January 11, 1902.
New York Sun, January 23, 1902.
New York Mail & Express, January 25, 1902.
C. Caffin, “American Studio Notes: Seventy-Seventh Annual Exhibition of the National Academy,” International Studio, February 1902.
San Francisco Examiner, February 1902.
E. Cardon, Moniteur des Arts, May 8, 1902.
G. Mourey, Des Hommes Devant la Nature et la vie: Rodin, Helleu, Le Sidaner, Steinlen, E. Claus, P. Renouard, Ch. Cottet, J.W. Alexander, J. F. Raffaelli, F. Thaulow, G. La Touche, A. Baertsoen, Aman-Jean, A. Lepère, Paris, France, 1902, p. 182.
G. Mourey "Seen Through French Eyes, Estimate of the American Painter, John W. Alexander," New York Times, September 7, 1902.
National Arts Club, John W. Alexander Retrospective Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1909, no. 69.
C. Caffin, "John W. Alexander, Living American Painters - Fourth Article," Arts And Decoration, February 1911, p. 149, illustrated.
H. Maguire, "An Evening with Mme. Helen Hopekirk," The Musician, Boston, Massachusetts, vol. xvii, no. 6, June 1912.
Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Catalogue of Paintings: John White Alexander Memorial Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 1916, p. 44.
J.C. Van Dyke, American Painting and its Tradition, as Represented by Inness, Wyant, Martin, Homer, La Farge, Whistler, Chase, Alexander, Sargent, New York, 1919, pp. 227, 236.
J.C. Van Dyke, American Painting and its Tradition, as Represented by Inness, Wyant, Martin, Homer, La Farge, Whistler, Chase, Alexander, Sargent, New York, 1920, pp. 227, 236.
S. Hartmann, A History of American Art, Boston, Massachusetts, 1932, p. 174.
J.C. Van Dyke, American Painting and its Tradition, New York, 1972, p. 236.
L.M. Fink, American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, Washington, D.C., 1990, pp. 218, 315.
S.J. Moore John White Alexander (1856-1915): In Search of the Decorative, Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 1992, fig. 36, illustrated.
M.A. Goley, "The Tribute of Isabella," Apollo, January 2012, p. 61, illustrated.
M.A. Goley, John White Alexander An American Artist in the Gilded Age, London, 2018, pp. 66, 68-69, 215, fig. 34, illustrated.
Exhibited
Paris, France, Salon du Champ-de-Mars, April 25, 1894, p. 23, no. 21.
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Seventh Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture, October 1894, no. 9.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Art Society, 214th Reception, Exhibition of Paintings and Compositions by John W. Alexander, December 9, 1895, no. 14.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 65th Annual Exhibition, December 23, 1895-February 22, 1896, no. 12.
Berlin, Germany, Internationale Kunst-Ausstellung in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts, May 3-September 30, 1896, no. 25.
Venice, Italy, Prima Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte della Citta di Venezia, April 28-October 31, 1897, pp. 14, 183, no. 43, illustrated.
New York, National Academy of Design, 77th Annual Exhibition, January 3-February 1, 1902, p. 57, no. 352, illustrated.
Post lot text
We are grateful to Mary Anne Goley, author of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the work of John White Alexander for her assistance with cataloging this lot.