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The Aviator (English)
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13 April 2019
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On the surface, there's nothing to suggest the presence of an unsolved mystery in Gallery 236 of the Cleveland Museum of Art. I t's a smallish room, filled mainly with paintings from the 1910s and '20s by European artists such as Juan Gris, Andre Derain, Georges Braque and Henri Matisse. Among them is the superb Fernand Leger painting "The Aviator," painted in 1920 and purchased by the museum in 1981 from New York art dealer Klaus Perls. (English)
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7 January 2019
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PROVENANCE (D. H. Kahnweiler, Paris, France) (Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin,Germany) Kofler-Herni Coll.(Galerie Beyeler, Basel Switzerland)1981 (Perls Galleries, New York, NY, 1981, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1981-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (English)
The museum’s Provenance Research list includes Fernand Leger’s 1920 "Aviator." Documentary evidence indicates that the German Jewish art dealer Alfred Flechtheim owned the painting before he fled Germany in 1933 and that he may have been forced to abandon it to the Nazis.The late Thea Klestadt of Beachwood, Flechtheim’s niece, said that she never wanted to file a claim for ownership of the painting. She simply wanted the museum to acknowledge her uncle in the work’s chain of ownership, which it did after her death in 2006. (English)
1981
1941
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PROVENANCE(D. H. Kahnweiler, Paris, France)(Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin,Germany)Kofler-Herni Coll.(Galerie Beyeler, Basel Switzerland)1981(Perls Galleries, New York, NY, 1981, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1981-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (English)
18 September 2021
The unknown years in painting's history Since then, the museum has tried to solve the mystery of the painting's lost years by combing archives and contacting galleries in Europe. Just last Wednesday, the museum traced the painting's ownership to 1941, when it was in the hands of Dr. Max Kofler-Erni, a Swiss collector who lived in Basel. (English)
1929
1941
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The unknown years in painting's history Since then, the museum has tried to solve the mystery of the painting's lost years by combing archives and contacting galleries in Europe. Just last Wednesday, the museum traced the painting's ownership to 1941, when it was in the hands of Dr. Max Kofler-Erni, a Swiss collector who lived in Basel. But there is still a gap. The whereabouts of the painting from the time it was photographed in Flechtheim's apartment to 1941 are still unknown. (English)
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7 January 2019
1981.16
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7 January 2019
92.0 centimetre
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7 January 2019
65.0 centimetre
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7 January 2019