The Rock of Hautepierre (Q20275910)

Correction: July 29, 2006, Saturday A picture caption on Tuesday with an article about a survey of museums' efforts to research the provenance of certain artworks in their collections misspelled the title of a painting owned by the Art Institute of Chicago. It is "The Rock of Hautepierre" (about 1869) by Courbet, not "The Rock at Hautpierre."The caption also referred imprecisely to the way in which the work left the possession of a previous owner. It was sold at auction in Berlin in March 1935 by Max Silberberg, a Jewish industrialist from Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) in a transaction that both current German law and restitution experts say was forced upon him by the Nazis; the painting was not taken directly from him by the Nazis. (Mr. Silberberg died in the Holocaust; the Art Institute acquired the painting in 1967 from a New York gallery. In 2001 the institute negotiated a pact with Mr. Silberberg's sole living heir that allowed the museum to keep the work; the terms were not disclosed.) (English)

reference URL

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/27027/the-rock-of-hautepierre

quotation

Adolf Rothermundt, Dresden-Blasewitz, before 1923 [according to Scheffler 1923 and 1935 Graupe sale cat. cited below]. Max Silberberg, Breslau, by 1923 to 1935 [according to 18 July 1967 letter from Fritz Nathan to Charles Cunningham in curatorial file, and Scheffler 1923]; sold Galerie Paul Graupe, Berlin, 23 March 1935, no. 20 [price given in Die Weltkunst 1935]. German private collection [according to Alexander, Graf Strasoldo of Lempertz, Cologne, letter of 21 September 1998 in curatorial file]; sold Lempertz, Cologne, 11–14 November 1964, no. 289, to Galerie Nathan, Zurich [Nathan letter cited above]; sold by Galerie Nathan to Paul Rosenberg Gallery and Co., New York, 4 June 1965 [copy of invoice in curatorial file]; sold by Paul Rosenberg Gallery to the Art Institute, 1967. (English)

Galerie Nathan

start time

November 1964

end time

4 June 1965

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reference URL

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/27027/the-rock-of-hautepierre

quotation

Adolf Rothermundt, Dresden-Blasewitz, before 1923 [according to Scheffler 1923 and 1935 Graupe sale cat. cited below]. Max Silberberg, Breslau, by 1923 to 1935 [according to 18 July 1967 letter from Fritz Nathan to Charles Cunningham in curatorial file, and Scheffler 1923]; sold Galerie Paul Graupe, Berlin, 23 March 1935, no. 20 [price given in Die Weltkunst 1935]. German private collection [according to Alexander, Graf Strasoldo of Lempertz, Cologne, letter of 21 September 1998 in curatorial file]; sold Lempertz, Cologne, 11–14 November 1964, no. 289, to Galerie Nathan, Zurich [Nathan letter cited above]; sold by Galerie Nathan to Paul Rosenberg Gallery and Co., New York, 4 June 1965 [copy of invoice in curatorial file]; sold by Paul Rosenberg Gallery to the Art Institute, 1967. (English)

retrieved

28 June 2023

publisher

Art Institute of Chicago