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Three Peasants Drinking and Smoking
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Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
Sold [Frederik Muller Amsterdam November 25-26 1913 lot 276]. [Kunsthandel P. de Boer Amsterdam Autumn 1928]. Gladys Hermione Leith (Mrs. Henry Gordon Leith) [1] by 1943 – until? [2] London. R. Isaac offered for sale [through Parke-Bernet New York December 8 1949 lot 10]. [3] [Christie's New York March 14 1985] sold; to[Johnny Van Haeften London] sold; to Peter and Anne Brooke Boston gift; to Harvard Art Museums 2017
Notes
[1] Gladys Hermione Leith was the wife of Henry Gordon Leith (1879-1941) a banker who had represented the Speyer Brothers in England between 1900 and 1919. They married in 1923. Born Gladys Hermione Catherine Chester-Master she was first married to Frank Ashton Bellville in 1901. They had two children and divorced in 1909.
[2] Mrs. Leith consigned the work to Christie’s London for a sale on June 4 1943 as lot 63. The painting was withdrawn from the sale.
[3] The lot was bought in.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Peter and Anne Brooke
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