The bouquet of flowers/ Le bouquet de fleurs (Bouquet of lilacs / Bouquet of Lilacs)

Paul Emil Pissarro (son of Camille Pissarro); acquired by Semmel, Berlin by Galerie Heinemann on 28.08.1929 for 15.000 RM; Richard Semmel, Berlin; issued Exposition du Centenaire de la Nancy de Camille Pissarro, au Musée de l'Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris 1930, no. 138 (owner: Richard Semmel, Berlin); offered on auction Muller, Amsterdam, 13.06.1933, no. 25, with fig. For 1.000 fl offered, back; Gallery Moos, Geneva; of Moos, 17.11.1945, acquired by Knoedler, New York; October-November 1945 Exhibition Gallery Wildenstein, New York "Camille Pissarro: His Place in Art", No. 14; January 2, 1946 by Knoedler to Richard N. Ryan, New York; Mrs Clifford Klenk (formerly Mrs. Ryan), New York; 1961 Exhibition New York, Metropolitan Museum, "Paintings from Private Collections", No. 70; 1962 Exhibition New York, Metropolitan Museum, "Paintings from Private Collections", No. 69; 1963 Exhibition New York, Metropolitan Museum, "Paintings from Private Collections", No. 58; 1966 Exhibition New York, Knoedler Galleries "Impressionist Treasures from Private Collections in New York", No. 23; 09.10.1968 Auction Parke-Bernet, New York (The property of a New York private collector (Mrs. Clifford Klenk)), No. 3 with Fig .; here purchased by the Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena (Calif.); 1969 Exhibition Philadelphia Museum of Art "Recent Acquisitions by the Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art", No. 9; 1970 Exhibition Berkeley, University Art Museum "Excellence: Art from the University Community", No. 288; 02.-04.05.1973, New York auction, Sotheby Parke-Bernet (Property of Norton Simon Museum of Art), No. 24; purchased here by Marlborough International Fine Art, Vaduz; Dec. 1973 Exhibition Princeton (New Jersey), The Art Museum "Selections from the Norton Simon Museum of Arts" No. 26; by Marlborough International Fine Art, Vaduz 1974 to a private collector from Madrid sold; 02.05.2006 Auction Christie's New York, Lot. 3, cat. P. 13, estimated price US $ 800,000-1,200,000 - not sold; amicable agreement under negotiation;

settlement between claimants and current owner