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Anne Page

Artist Dennis Miller Bunker (1861 - 1890)

Date1887

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions42 1/2 x 54 in. (108 x 137.2 cm)
Framed: 55 x 68 x 3 in. (139.7 x 172.7 x 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPainting

Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2010.84

Signedl.r., in black paint: Dennis M. Bunker / 1887

Accession number 2010.84

On View

On view

ProvenanceAnne Page; Lilias Page (Anne Page's sister), Cambridge, MA; Katharine Page Hersey (daughter of George Hyde Page, Anne Page's brother) and M. Leonard Hersey; Mr. and Mrs. George Leonard Hersey; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. Gelfand, Los Angeles, CA; (Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York, NY); purchased by Rita Fraad [1915-2004] and Daniel Fraad [1912-1987], Scarsdale, NY, 1990; to (Sotheby's, New York, NY), December 1, 2004, lot 165; purchased by a private foundation for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2004
Label TextIn September of 1886, Dennis Miller Bunker wrote to Boston socialite and beauty Anne Page, “I want to paint you awfully much, but I tremble to ask you to let me, for I know it would take me a long time to do you as I want to and I should not care a bit to do you unless I could make my best work of it.” Page did agree and it took Bunker over six months to finish the portrait, exceptional for the elegant simplicity and haunting beauty of the sitter.

En septiembre de 1886, Dennis Miller Bunker escribió a Anne Page, una hermosa joven de la alta sociedad de Boston, lo siguiente: “Deseo tanto pintarte, que tiemblo al pedir que me lo permitas, pues sé que me tomará mucho tiempo hacerlo como deseo hacerlo y que no debe siquiera importarme a menos que pueda hacer de este mi mejor trabajo”. Page accedió, y le tomó a Bunker más de seis meses terminar el retrato, cuyo resultado fue una pintura excepcional por la elegancia de su sencillez, y la belleza cautivadora de la modelo.
Inscribedl.r., in black paint: 1887