La Table

With Galerie Simon, Paris and New York [1];

With Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York, possibly by 1951 [2];

Purchased from Curt Valentin Gallery by Ted Schempp (1904-1988), New York and Paris, by 1954 [3];

Purchased from Schempp by George Berdan, Sarasota, FL, by 1973-1980 [4];

With Waddington Galleries, London, 1981;

Purchased from the Waddington Galleries by the Friends of Art, Kansas City, MO;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.

NOTES:

[1] According to Waddington Galleries, in documentation provided at the time of the object’s gift, NAMA registration files.

[2] Ibid. The Waddington Galleries documents use the name ‘Buchholz Gallery’, which was renamed Curt Valentin Gallery in 1951, and so it is possible the painting was with that gallery prior to the name change.

[3] This painting is listed in “Picasso Items Sold by the Valentin Gallery,” Curt Valentin Papers, Museum of Modern Art, New York, VIII.B.177, a copy is in the Nelson-Atkins curatorial file.

[4] According to Elizabeth S. Telford, Registrar, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, in a letter to Ellen Goheen, Nelson-Atkins, October 22, 1981, NAMA curatorial files, this painting was on loan from Berdan to the Ringling from 1973-1980. Berdan told the Ringling he purchased it from Schempp in Paris.