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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Finch College Museum, “French Landscape Paintings from Four Centuries,” October 20, 1965-January 9, 1966, cat. 39.

Cambridge, Mass, Fogg Art Museum, “Degas Monotypes,” April 25-June 14, 1968, n.p., cat. 68 (ill.).

Providence, R.I., Rhode Island School of Design, The Museum of Art, “From the Age of David to the Age of Picasso: French Drawings from a Private Collection," 1984, pp. 34-36, cat. 11 (ill.).

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Degas Landscapes," January 21-April 3, 1994, cat. 40, fig. 130; traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 24-July 3, 1994.

Publication History

Finch College Museum of Art, French Landscape Painters from Four Centuries (New York, 1966), no. 39

Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin, Edgar Degas: gravures et monotypes (Paris, 1973), p. LXVIII.

Jean Adhémar and Françoise Cachin, Degas: The Complete Etchings, Lithographs and Monotypes (New York, 1974), p. 283.

Deborah J. Johnson and Eric M. Zafran, From the Age of David to the Age of Picasso: French Drawings from a Private Collection (Providence, 1984), pp. 34-36, no. 11

Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorella Minervino, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, trans. by Simone Darses (Paris, 1988), p. 129, no. 966 (ill.).

Howard Trienens, Landscape With Smokestacks: The Case of the Allegedly Plundered Degas (Evanston, Ill., 2000).

Norman Palmer, Museums and the Holocaust: Law, Principles and Practice (London, 2000).

Yasuko Iguma, "Looted Art," Geijutsu Shincho, (Shinchosha Company, 2000).

Nancy H. Yeide, Konstantin Akinsha, Amy L. Walsh, The AAM Guide to Provenance Research (Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 2001), pp. 105-107 (ill.).

Northwestern Alumni Magazine (Northwestern University, 2001).

Art, Cultural Heritage, & The Law (2004).

Ownership History

Estate of the artist, from 1917 [Lugt 658, estate stamp, lower left in red ink]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, July 2-4 1919, lot 45. Nunes et Fiquet, Paris [according to Lemoisne 1946]. L. Wolff, Hamburg [according to Paris 1932 auc. cat.]. Unidentified private collector, to 1932 [Although the 1932 auction included the Simon and Silberberg collections, it remains unclear who owned this specific lot. It could have been Simon, Silberberg, or an unknown third party.]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 9, 1932, lot 5, to Dr. Helmut Lutjens for Fritz and Louis Gutmann, Heemstede, Holland [according to an annotated sale catalogue obtained from Walter Feilchenfeldt]; sent by Gutmann to Paul Graupe, Paris, 1939; sent to the Wacker-Bondy storage facility on the Boulevard Raspail, by 1945 [according to a letter from Arthur Goldschmidt of Graupe to Fritz Gutmann]. Hans Wendland, Paris, to his brother-in-law, Hans Fritz Fankhauser, Basel [according to Janis 1968]; sold by Hans Fritz Fankhauser to Emile Wolf, New York, 1951 [according to Janis 1968]; sold by Emile Wolf, through Margo Pollins Schab, New York, to Daniel Searle, Winnetka, Ill., 1987; given by Daniel Searle and sold by the Goodman family to the Art Institute, 1998.