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31 October 2018
7 February 2024
166J, Ms 3824
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Eberhard Freiherr von Bodenhausen (died 1918), Munich [according to Billeter 2001]; perhaps by inheritance to his wife Dora Freifrau von Bodenhausen. Martin Fabiani, Paris; sold to Gallery Fine Arts Associates (Otto Gerson), May 1951 [see Gallery Fine Arts Associates’ stockcard, Otto Gerson Papers, Archives of American Art, copy in curatorial file]; sold to Mrs. Vincent Astor, Rhinebeck, New York, May 1951 [see stockcard citied above]. Mr. and Mrs. Werner E. Josten, New York, by 1964 [according to Compin 1964] until at least 1968 [New York 1968]. Private Collection, Maryland [information given by R. L. Feigen]. Richard L. Feigen and Co., by 1982; sold to the Art Institute, 1983. (English)
1 September 2023
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Fabiani, Martin. Paris, 26 ave Matignon. Corsican adventurer, gigolo and race track tout, who married the daughter of a wealthy banker. Became a friend and protege of Ambrose Vollard, who named him an executor of the estate, a large part of which he still owns. With Dequoy, the arch-collaborationist of the Paris deler milieu. Received looted objects from the ERR by undetermined means. Has personally returned 24 pictures to Paul Rosenberg, from whose collection they were looted by the ERR. When last interviewed, stated that his relationship with Rosenberg was now (January 1946) on a ‘new basis ‘ because they had come to an agreement which concerned Fabiani’s property in the USA. Indicted by the French Government for embezzlement of the Wertheim collection and for attempts against the security of the state. In January 1946 fined FF 146,000,000 (Seine Tribunal, Judge Frapier). (English)
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10 September 2021
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- frwiki Martin Fabiani