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The Chimera
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Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Gustave Moreau 1867 sold; to Bocquet. Drouin. Willy Blumenthal Paris (by 1906-1935) sold; [through Martin Birnbaum]; to Grenville L. Winthrop 1935-1943) bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1943.
Notes:
Bocquet paid 2 000 ff.
WIlly Blumenthal lent this to the 1906 exhibition.
Seligmann Gallery Archives record a visit to Willy Blumenthal on March 19 1935 and describe a painting by Moreau: Centaure d'elançant dans le vide une femme s'accrochée à son cou.
Winthrop paid Fr 35 000
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
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