WILLIAM LAMB PICKNELL
American, 1853-1897
A Grey Day, Moret
Signed Wm. L. Picknell; also titled on the stretcher
Oil on canvas
29½ x 35¼ inches (75 x 89.5 cm)
Framed: 44 x 50 inches (112 x 127 cm)
Painted circa 1895.
Provenance
Gertrude Picknell Powers, the artist’s wife
Ann Elizabeth Johnson, 1905, sister of the above
Sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, November 18, 1977, lot 515, illustrated
Private Collection, Connecticut
Sale, Christie’s, New York, May 25, 2000, lot 20, illustrated
A.J. Kollar Fine Paintings, Seattle, Washington
Private Collection, Bellevue, Washington (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Texas
Exhibited
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1897, no. 305
Saint Louis, Saint Louis Museum of Fine Arts, William L. Picknell: Memorial Exhibition, 1897, no. 12
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Paintings by William L. Picknell, 1898, no. 14
Amherst, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Collegial Collectors: American Art from the Class of 1967, 1992 (on loan)
Literature
Benezit, Dictionary of Artists, Paris, 2006, p. 1384
$48,000