WALTER GAY
(1856-1937)
"THE GREEN BED"
signed "Walter Gay" bottom right, signed and inscribed twice on labels verso, oil on canvas,
26 x 21 1/2 in. (66 x 54.5 cm)
Provenance:
Estate of Mr. & Mrs. David J. Grossman
Exhibited:
The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Works by Members of the Societes des Peintres et Sculpteurs, 1911
Note:
This work depicts the Green Bedroom at the Chateau du Breau near Fountainbleau where the Gays lived beginning in 1905. It was painted circa 1909-1911.
We wish to thank William Rieder of The Metropolitian Museum of Art for his assistance in cataloguing this lot.