Little Harbor in Normandy (Q20275971)

PROVENANCE Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris, before 1914 [London 1983]. Cited as Collection Flechtheim, Düsseldorf and Berlin, by 1926 [Einstein 1926]. Paul (1875–1935) and Elsa (1899–1986) von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Berlin and Börnicke, at least by 1933 [sent by Galerie Alfred Flechtheim for Mendelssohn-Bartholdy to Basel 1933, letters from Galerie Alfred Flechtheim to Kunsthalle Basel, Mar. 21, 1933, and Sep. 27, 1933, Staatsarchiv Basel; photocopies in curatorial object file]; Elsa von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Berlin and Börnicke, until at least 1937 [Mayor Gallery, London, log book indicates the painting was delivered in 1936 by “Mendelssohn” and taken by “Frau Mendelssohn” on Nov. 26, 1937]. Sold through Curt Valentin, Buchholz Gallery, New York, to Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. (1909–1988), New York and Warrenton, Va., 1939 to at least 1968 [letter from William Mayglothling, for Chrysler, June 4, 1975, and Mullins 1968; photocopies in curatorial object file]; sold through Eugene V. Thaw and Company, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970 [invoice from E. V. Thaw and Co., Inc., Apr. 28, 1970; photocopy in curatorial object file]. (English)

retrieved

16 August 2022

publisher

Art Institute of Chicago

Curt Valentin

1 reference

reference URL

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/109330/little-harbor-in-normandy

quotation

Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris, before 1914 [London 1983]. Cited as Collection Flechtheim, Düsseldorf and Berlin, by 1926 [Einstein 1926]. Paul (1875–1935) and Elsa (1899–1986) von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Berlin and Börnicke, at least by 1933 [sent by Galerie Alfred Flechtheim for Mendelssohn-Bartholdy to Basel 1933, letters from Galerie Alfred Flechtheim to Kunsthalle Basel, Mar. 21, 1933, and Sep. 27, 1933, Staatsarchiv Basel; photocopies in curatorial object file]; Elsa von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Berlin and Börnicke, until at least 1937 [Mayor Gallery, London, log book indicates the painting was delivered in 1936 by “Mendelssohn” and taken by “Frau Mendelssohn” on Nov. 26, 1937]. Sold through Curt Valentin, Buchholz Gallery, New York, to Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. (1909–1988), New York and Warrenton, Va., 1939 to at least 1968 [letter from William Mayglothling, for Chrysler, June 4, 1975, and Mullins 1968; photocopies in curatorial object file]; sold through Eugene V. Thaw and Company, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970 [invoice from E. V. Thaw and Co., Inc., Apr. 28, 1970; photocopy in curatorial object file]. (English)