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The Fortune Teller-- A Red Note
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A. A. Hannay; E. B. Patterson; his sale to Knoedler New York; their sale to H. Y. Sanderson April 25 1919; Grenville L. Winthrop; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum 1943.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
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