African Chief by Mariano Fortuny y Marsal
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African Chief

Mariano Fortuny y Marsal · 1870

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Edmund C. Converse (died 1921) Greenwich, Connecticut; his estate sale, American Art Association, New York, November 25, 1927, lot 30 to George F. Harding, Jr. for $1,000 [buyer according to a Harding Museum record, copy in curatorial file; price according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida]; George F. Harding, Jr. (died 1939), Chicago; bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; transferred to the Art Institute, 1983.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Albuquerque, Albuquerque Museum, Fortuny to Picasso: Prelude to Spanish Modernism, August 21–November 27, 2005, cat. 4; Dallas, Meadows Museum, December 11, 2005–February 26, 2006.
  • Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Fortuny (1838-1874), Nov. 21, 2017-March 18, 2018, cat. 64 (ill.).

Literature

Published references

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1983–84 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 45.
  • Mark-Allan Roglán Kelley, “La pintura española del siglo XIX en las colecciones públicas norteamericanas: Una primera aproximación,” vol. 2 (Ph.D. diss., Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2001), no. 89.
  • Javier Barón, Fortuny (1838-1874), exh. cat. (Museo Nacional del Prado, 2017), p. 35, 228-230, 233, 299, 311, 467.

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