“INTERIOR"

Watercolor on Paper

Unsigned

Provenance: Dr. and Mrs. Robert Lasky, Holmdel, New Jersey, through Sotheby’s;

Barridoff Galleries

Museums (18): including The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;

The Cleveland Museum of Art; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh/Carnegie Institute;

Rhode Island School of Design-Museum of Art; Yale University Art Gallery; The Saint Louis Art Museum; Santa Barbara Museum

of Art; Denver Art Museum; Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Smith College Museum of Art; Colby College Museum of Art; Sheldon Memorial

Art Gallery, MusÈe d"Orsay, Paris; MusÈe des Beaux-Arts, Amiens, France; Palace of the ElysÈe, Paris; Pinakothek, Munich

Books (54): including A Charmed Couple: The Art and Life Of Walter and Matilda Gay, Rieder;

Walter Gay, Reynolds; American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century, Quick; Americans and Paris, Marlais;

Revealed Masters19th Century American Art, Gerdts

Periodicals(3): The Magazine Antiques, American Art Review, Art & Auction

Image size: 7” x 9”L

SOLD

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WALTER GAY

Birth place: Hingham, MA

Addresses: France/Seine-et-Marne, France

Profession: Painter

Studied: with his uncle, W. Allan Gay, Hingham, Mass.; Lowell Inst., Boston, 1873; Académie Julian, Paris with Constant; also with

L. Bonn‚t in Paris, 1876

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1879-95 (med., 1888); Art Institute of Chicago; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1883-85, 1891-99,

1903-09; National Academy of Design, 1885; Vienna, 1898 (gold); Salons of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1899; Antwerp,

1894 (gold); Munich, 1894 (gold); Berlin, 1895, (gold); Budapest, 1895 (gold); Paris Expo, 1900 (med); Pan-Am. Expo, Buffalo, 1901 (med);

Corcoran Gallery, 1908, 1912, 1914.

Member: Ass. National Academy of Design, 1904; American Federation of Arts; Société Nouvelle; National des Beaux-Arts; Société de la

Peinture · l'Eau; Royal Soc. Watercolor, Brussels; NIAL; Société des Amis du Louvre, Paris; Committee des Amis du Musée de

Luxembourg, Paris; Committee des Amis de Versailles; Chevalier Legion of Honor, 1894, Officer, 1906, Commander, 1927.

Work: National Museum American Art; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Metropolitan Museum of Art;

Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo; Carnegie Insitute.; Rhode Island School of Design; Art Institute of Chicago; Detroit Institute of Art;

Yale Univ. Art Gallery, MusÈe d"Orsay, Paris; MusÈe des Beaux-Arts, Amiens, France; Palace of the ElysÈe, Paris; Pinakothek, Munich

Comments: Best known for his studies of French interiors. He began his career in Boston as a floral still-life specialist. He then traveled to

Europe, studying in France and visiting Spain, subsequently adopting a new subject ó mannered costume-pieces featuring figures in 18th-century

dress. In 1882, Gay joined the artist colony at Concarneau, Brittany, and began producing austere paintings of French peasants. About 1895,

after moving to a country home near near Paris, Gay began painting decorative interiors; these works were very popular with rich

patrons in France and America.

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