Arabesque
Exhibition, Spiva Art Center, Joplin, MO, October 1961, no cat.?.
Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917: An Exhibition of Sculptures and Drawings, Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York, May 6-June 26, 1963; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, August 17-September 17, 1963; The Art Galery of Toronto, September 26-October 20, 1963; Winnipeg Art Gallery, November 1-December 1, 1963; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 15, 1963-January 15, 1964; Cleveland Museum of Art, January 27-March 1, 1964; Baltimore Museum of Art, March 8-April 8, 1964; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, April 20-May 20, 1964; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, June 1-July 1, 1964; Minneapolis Museum of Art, July 15-August 23, 1964; Seattle Art Museum, Septebmer 11-October 6, 1964; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 21-November 20, 1964; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, December 4, 1964-January 10, 1965, no. 58, as Arabesque.
Encore Degas! Ballet, Fashion, and Movement, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, November 20, 2021–November 21, 2022, no cat.
Kurt L. Schwarz (1909-1983), Vienna, London, Shanghai, Los Angeles, by February 17, 1948 [1];
Purchased from Schwartz by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.
NOTES:
[1] Kurt L. Schwartz was an antiquarian book dealer. He lived and worked in Vienna from 1909-1938; in London from 1938-1940; in Shanghai from 1940-1947; and in Los Angeles from 1947 until his death. Schwartz published many sales catalogues, and, along with Jake Zeitlin, he organized a number of art exhibitions. See Donald C. Dickinson, Dictionary of American Antiquarian Bookdealers (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998), 200. It is not clear if he owned the watercolor personally or as a dealer.
