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Provenance:

Lefevre Gallery, Reid & Lefevre, London, as Femme Peinte A Palavas, gallery label verso
Estate of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, Anderson Galleries, Inc., Part I: Oil Paintings, American Art Association New York, NY, 10 Apr 1930
Collection of Mr. Robert Emmons
Lent by him to the Southampton Art Gallery, 15 Oct 1948
Reid & Lefevre Gallery, London, UK, 1956
Collection of the Art Gallery of Toronto, Toronto, ON, 1956, Accession no. 56/13
Deaccessioned to benefit art purchases at the AGO

Literature:

Robert Fernier, La Vie et l'œuvre de Gustave Courbet, catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1979, tome II, illustrated 76-77, no. 672.

Exhibited:

Counter Intelligence, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, 6 Oct 2016 - 5 Feb 2017.

Note:

Femme peinte à Palavas was purchased on the advice of Anthony Blunt to the Director of the Art Gallery of Toronto, (now Art Gallery of Ontario, AGO), Martin Baldwin, as documented in telegraph communications and letters regarding this painting. Blunt was a British art historian and Director of the Courtauld Institute. He held an appointment as surveyor of the Queen’s pictures, and was later revealed to have worked as a spy for the Soviet Union.

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