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Death with Left Hand Raised
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Busch-Reisinger Museum
[Art dealer Germany sold]; [to M. Glueckselig & Son New York NY (?-1959) sold]; to Busch-Reisinger Museum 1959.
Notes:
According to a letter from Frederick Glueckselig of M. Glueckselig & Son to Charles L. Kuhn at the Busch-Reisinger Museum dated April 28 1959 Mr. Glueckselig purchased both BR59.32 and BR59.33 from a well-known German art dealer without a detailed provenance history. Mr. Glueckselig did not disclose the name of the German art dealer and merely specified that the dealer had recently passed away.
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum Association Fund
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