The Provenance Research Project
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Composition
Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954)
Issy-les-Moulineaux, 1915. Oil on canvas, 57 1/2 x 38 1/8" (146 x 97 cm). Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder; Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest, gift of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Weintraub, and Mary Sisler Bequest (all by exchange)
Collection work meeting criteria specified in Introduction.
355.1997
Alphonse Kann, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Paris) By 1931 - 1940
Looted by the Nazis (ERR) from Alphonse Kann’s mansion in St. Germain-en-Laye in 1940
Echanged between the ERR and Gustav Rochlitz
Galerie Petrides, Paris
Madame Breton-Papazian. She entrusted the painting to Gaffier in Nice, where Matisse saw it and recognized it as a painting from the Kann collection, c. 1944. The painting was then returned to its rightful owner thanks to the artist
Alphonse Kann, London. Restituted c. 1946 - sold to Rosenberg
Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York
Fernand C. Graindorge, Liège. c. 1951 - 1952
Marcel Mabille, Brussels. [By 1956 - at least 1982]
Stephen Hahn, New York. Acquired [after 1982] - 1997
Acquavella Galleries, New York. Agent for Hahn, 1996-97
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired by exchange, 1997
The Window / The Yellow Curtain
La fenêtre
Le rideau chamois
Le rideau de Chamois
[Le Rideau jaune]
[The Yellow Curtain]
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