Focus on La Gommeuse and explain the Provenance.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris
Demotte Gallery, New York (1931)
Josef von Sternberg, Hollywood (acquired from the above before 1935 and sold: Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, November 22, 1949, lot 89)
Perls Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Jacques Sarlie, New York (sold: Sotheby’s, London, October 12, 1960, lot 5)
Galerie Alex Maguy, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
William I. Koch (sale: Sotheby’s, London, December 4, 1984, lot 23 )
Private collection (sale: Sotheby's, New York, November 5, 2015, lot 26)
Vollard Sotheby’s Sotheby's Ambroise Vollard