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In the Café
Fernand Lungren · 1882–84
Provenance
Ownership history
- Lester Field (born Lester Rosenfield, 1886–1937) and Louis Ritman (1889–1963), Chicago and Paris, by 1937; sold to Albert Milch, Milch Gallery, New York, 1937 [according to letter from son Harold C. Milch, dated November 5, 1979, copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Charles H. Worcester (1864–1956), 1945; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, National Academy of Design, <em>Ninetieth Annual Exhibition</em>, Mar. 20–Apr. 25, 1915, cat. 364, as <em>Au Café</em>.
- IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, <em>A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, June 10–16, 1957, no. 7, as <em>Sarah Bernhardt at the Café de la Paix</em>.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
- Shanghai Museum, <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, Sept. 28, 2018–Jan. 6, 2019, cat. 29, as <em>The Café</em>.
Literature
Published references
- National Academy of Design, <em>Illustrated Catalogue of the Ninetieth Annual Exhibition</em>, exh. cat. (National Academy of Design, 1915), cat. 364, as <em>Au Café</em>.
- Yang Zhigang, ed., <em>Pathways to Modernism: American Art, 1865–1945</em>, exh. cat. (Shanghai Book and Painting Press, 2018), cat. 29, as <em>The Café</em>.
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