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Figure of Saint Paul
Salomon Weininger · 1863/1876
Provenance
Ownership history
- J. Schmidt [according to Gutman sale catalogue, p. 18]. Melvin Gutman, New York, by 1968; his sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, October 17, 1969, no. 38; Marilynn B. Alsdorf, Chicago [according to Wardropper 2000, p. 4]; given to the Art Institute, 1992.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Charles Truman, "Nineteenth-century Renaissance-Revival Jewelry" in Ian Wardropper et al, Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), pp. 91, ill., 98, 107, no. 53.
- Paulus Rainer, "'Nothing which Made Me Doubt its Authenticity' (Sir Augustus W. Franks, British Museum, 1877): Salomon Weininger's Forgeries and Some Aspects of their British Fortune," in A Rothschild Renaissance: A New Look at the Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum, ed. Pippa Shirley and Dora Thornton (London, 2017), p. 184.
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