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geo s#6

May 25, 1949

Dear Germain: 

Perls, the father, asked for my visit and showed me a painting by Daumier which represents a mandolin player on a kind of terrace or balcony, with green trees in the background and a blue sky.
The personage himself has good volume, good movement, but he is gray with black outlining. To my feeling, the painting is unfinished. It is signed "HD".

Excellent pedigree: Was in the Doria Sale in 1896, from what Perls said, Doria bought most of his paintings directly from the artist and has stopped buying Daumier before 1860.

Vollard

Fuchs who bought it in 1911. It is now the property of his widow.

Exhibited: Exposition des Beaux Arts 1901
Hugo Perls, 1925
Museum of Modern Art, 1930, in Exhibition, "Daumier to Corot"

Reproduced: Fuchs and Glosowaki
Size: Roughly 80 x 60cm
Price: $22,000.-