Girl Tatting/ La frivolité

Collection Maurice Gangnat, Paris, sold Paris 1925, no. 147 (according to cat. Muller 1933); Richard Semmel, Berlin; offered at auction Muller, Amsterdam, 13.06.1933, no. 32, with fig. 4.450 fl; Possibly with the French Art Galleries, New York, as of 1938 [3]. Louis E. Stern, New York, by March 1946 [4]; bequest to PMA, 1963. 1. Lake Georges Riviere, Renoir et ses amis, Paris, 1921, illus. P. 239 as coll. Gangnat. According to Julius Meier-Graefe and Robert de Flers, the artist who is the artist of the 19th century, is an artist, artist and artist, vol. 23, no. 9, June 1925, pp. 354, and preface to 1925 Gangnat sale, Hôtel Drouot). 2. According to an annotation in the Frick copy of the auction catalog the painting was sold to Mr. Hessel, presumably Jos. Hessel, the expert for the sale. 3. A note in the curatorial file indicates that the painting may have been with a New York City dealer, and that it was exhibited at the French Art Galleries in 1938. French Impressionists, "Dec. 12, 1938-Jan. 31, 1939, which included a painting called "La Frivolité" (no. 18). 4. The painting is listed (as "La Frivolité") in an appraised appraisal made for star by Georges Keller of Bignou Gallery dated March 1, 1946 (PMA registrar file). Stern exhibited the painting at Rosenberg & Co., New York in 1954; Philadelphia Museum of Art