(Q17421944)

https://www.philamuseum.org/collection/object/52064

Provenance Émile Bernard (1868-1941), Paris; with Ambroise Vollard, Paris; Amédeé Schuffenecker (1854–1936), Clamart, 1908; Fritz Meyer-Fierz, Zürich, by 1924; sale, Meyer-Fierz, Frederich Muller and Company, Amsterdam, July 13, 1926, no. 10. With Galerien Thannhauser, Munich and Lucerne (later Berlin and Paris), by 1927 to c. 1937 [1]. Knoedler & Co., New York, joint ownership (half share) with Mme Paul Guillaume (Domenica Guillaume), June 21, 1937 to 1946 [2]; sold to William M. Elkins (1882-1947), Philadelphia, May 1946 [3]; his wife Elizabeth "Lisa" C. Norris Elkins (1898-1950), Philadelphia; bequest to PMA, 1950.1. Exhibited at Thannhauser Galleries, Berlin, "Erste Sonderausstellung in Berlin," January 9-February 1927. Published in de la Faille, 1928 (no. 490) as Thannhauser Gallery, Munich. The Thannhausers closed their original Munich gallery in 1928; they closed the Berlin branch in 1937 and moved to Paris.2. Getty Research Institute, Knoedler Book 8, stock no. A1882, p. 173. De la Faille, Vincent van Gogh, 1939, no. 520, lists the current owner as Reid & Lefevre Gallery, London on p. 369, although the painting is still listed under Thannhauser Gallery, Paris, in the "Index of Collections" (p. 559). (English)

Thannhauser Galleries

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Woman Ironing

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Judge dismisses Holocaust restitution claim to Guggenheim’s Blue Period Picasso

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/06/19/judge-dismisses-holocaust-restitution-claim-to-guggenheims-blue-period-picasso

Head of a Woman

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significant event

2009

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Museums and Heirs Settle Dispute Over Picasso

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/arts/design/03arts-MUSEUMSHEIRS_BRF.html

The suit involved “Le Moulin de la Galette,” given to the Guggenheim in 1963 by the art dealer Justin K. Thannhauser, and “Boy Leading a Horse,” sold by Mr. Thannhauser to William S. Paley, who donated it to MoMA in 1964. In 2007 lawyers for Julius H. Schoeps, a great-nephew of the paintings’ original owner, Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, told the museums that they believed Mr. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, a German Jewish banker who died in 1935, had sold the works to Mr. Thannhauser under duress, and demanded their return. (English)

National Gallery of Art Returns Picasso Work to Settle Claim

legal settlement

2009

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Museums and Heirs Settle Dispute Over Picasso

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/arts/design/03arts-MUSEUMSHEIRS_BRF.html

2023

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Jewish Heirs Sue Guggenheim Over Ownership of a Prized Picasso

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/29/arts/guggenheim-picasso-lawsuit-jewish-heirs.html

2011

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One Jewish Family's Battle with a Munich Museum

https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=P3WASW805401

The Mendelssohn-Bartholdy heirs and their Washington-based lawyer argue that Thannhauser was never the legal owner of the paintings. But Andrea Bambi, who researches the provenance of works of art for the Pinakothek in Munich, insists that the sale was legitimate. (English)

2020

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National Gallery of Art Returns Picasso Work to Settle Claim

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/arts/design/picasso-national-gallery-of-art-heirs.html

Guggenheim Settles Litigation and Shares Key Findings

A relative of the famous composer Felix Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was ousted from the Central Association of German Banks and Bankers in 1933 and from the board of the Reich Insurance Office in 1934. The family bank was “aryanised” — transferred to non-Jewish ownership — in 1938.“Head of a Woman” was sold to the dealer Justin K. Thannhauser in 1934. The National Gallery of Art says it acquired the pastel as a donation in 2001. (English)

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