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Pear Tree
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Busch-Reisinger Museum
Gift of the artist to Emilie Flöge Vienna Austria. [Neue Galerie Vienna Austria (by 1933); Galerie St. Etienne Paris France (by 1939); Galerie St. Etienne New York (by 1950)]; Otto Kallir gift; to Fogg Museum (1956-1966)
Note: Otto Kallir owned the Neue Galerie Vienna and the Galerie St. Etienne Paris and New York.
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum Gift of Otto Kallir
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