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Francisco de Zurbarán (1598 - 1664)

Still Life with plate of candied fruit ca. 1633

Oil on canvas 28.5 × 39 cm Private collection Madrid.

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Francisco de Zurbarán (1598 – 1664)

Still Life with Dish of Quince, 1633-1635

Oil on canvas 35 x 40.5 cm

Gil Collection on loan at the Museu Nacional D’Art De Cataluyna

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Edvard Munch (1863 – 1944) Variation of “Vampire in the Forest” 1928–1930 Pen on wove paper 20.8 × 17 cm Munch Museum, Oslo

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Fra Filippo Lippi (Italian,ca. 1406–1469) ‘Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement’ ca. 1440 Tempera on wood 25 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (64.1 x 41.9 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Joan Miró (1893-1983) Untitled, 1908 Oil on canvas 22.3 x 17.5 cm Fundació Miró, Mallorca

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Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) Young Girl Holding a Dog in Her Arms, 1892. pastel on paper mounted on board at edges 20 3/8 by 17 5/8 in. 51.8 by 44.7 cm.

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Titian

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frida kahlo

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Pierre Bonnard. Piazza del Popolo in Rome.

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Bonnard; Basket of Fruit, 1924

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Mollie Wilmot lounging at home in Palm Beach with her Picasso, ‘La fenêtre ouverte (The Open Window)’ (1929), photographed by Slim Aarons.

Wilmot made headlines in November 1984 when a 197-foot Venezuelan freighter slammed into the seawall of her oceanfront mansion during a tropical storm. While most would panic, Wilmot slipped effortlessly into the role of hostess, serving finger sandwiches, caviar, and coffee to the ship’s Spanish-speaking crew, and martinis to the swarm of journalists who arrived at her door. The scene caused a media frenzy and Wilmot loved every moment of it.

Her love life was as turbulent as her public one. Married three times, all ending in divorce, she acquired the Picasso during her second marriage to Alfred C. Bostwick Jr., heir to the Standard Oil fortune. In 1967, Bostwick filed for divorce after allegedly finding her in bed with their neighbour. Reports at the time claimed she fled the estate with the Picasso and $135,000 in diamonds in hand, defying a court order.

The painting was later consigned to Galerie Beyeler — presumably as part of the divorce settlement — and by 1974 it had found a new owner. In 2022, it reappeared at Christie’s, where it sold for £16.3 million to an anonymous bidder.

Wilmot died in 2002, leaving much of her estate to healthcare causes. Somewhat fittingly, none of her obituaries could agree on her age: newspapers placed her between 73 and 78, friends swore she was in her early 80s, and one former husband guessed 73 — “at least that’s what she told me,” he said.

Photograph courtesy of the Slim Aarons Collection.

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Odilon Redon, Lemon and pepper, 1901 Oil on canvas

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Carol Rama, “Untitled”; oil and syringes on canvas (1967)

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Interior   -    Bernhard  Folkestad

British-Norwegian, 1879-1933

Oil on canvas, 62 x 77 cm.

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Odilon Redon; Rocks on the Beach, c. 1883

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Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955) Carrefour à Sannois signé 'Maurice, Utrillo, V,' (en bas à droite) huile sur toile 60 x 81.2 cm. Peint en 1936-37

signed 'Maurice, Utrillo, V,' (lower right) oil on canvas 23 1/2 x 32 in. Painted in 1936-37

IMPORTANT Restitué aux héritiers de Georges Bernheim par la Ville de Sannois, France en mai 2022.

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Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955) Carrefour à Sannois signé 'Maurice, Utrillo, V,' (en bas à droite) huile sur toile 60 x 81.2 cm. Peint en 1936-37

signed 'Maurice, Utrillo, V,' (lower right) oil on canvas 23 1/2 x 32 in. Painted in 1936-37

IMPORTANT Restitué aux héritiers de Georges Bernheim par la Ville de Sannois, France en mai 2022.