William Verplanck Birney (American, 1850-1919), A Pause in the Music, oil on canvas, signed Wm Verplanck Birney and dated 92 on upper right, labeled Playa Art Galleries, image: 34 1/2 "h x 45"w (87.6 x 114.3 cm), overall (with frame): 52.36"h x 40.94"w (133 x 104 cm)

Provenance: Plaza Art Galleries, New York.
Sotheby's New York, 2 Oct. 2015, American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, lot 179.

Exhibited: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 60th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, January 30 - March 6, 1890, no. 15 (titled ;Result of the Search)

Condition: Canvas is not lined. Surface in good condition overall, ;scattered craquelure, virtually all of it in the black and brown pigments (man's coat, woman's shoe, piano, chair). ;Under ultraviolet, ;no apparent inpainting. ;

William Verplanck Birney (1850-1919) is a Cincinnati-born genre painter. ; He went to the Munich Academy and ended up painting detailed genre scenes in a dark Northern manner. Birney was one of two Americans whose works sold at Munich's 1883 International Exhibition. He established a studio in New York City and exhibited at the National Academy of Design between 1885 and 1909. Numerous key galleries and museums such as ;Driscoll Babcock ;have featured Birney's work in the past.

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