Portrait of Mademoiselle Renaud
Change of A Dress, Hirschl and Adler, New York, November 25-December 29, 2017, no cat.
Unexpected Encounters, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 2-August 12, 2018, no cat.
Suzanne (Sue) Railey (née Rosenberg, 1911-1996), Paris and New York, until 1996 [1];
By descent, 1996-2018 [2];
Purchased from Railey’s descendants, through Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.
NOTES:
[1] Railey was born in New York and lived in Paris from 1950-1983. She moved back to New York in 1983, and joined Christie’s as an international representative from March 1985 until her death in 1996. See “Suzanne Railey, 85, Christie’s Representative,” The New York Times 146, no. 50, 637 (December 10, 1996): B10. In an article by Carol Vogel, “Design: Collecting Objectively,” The New York Times Magazine (November 26, 1989): 67, Railey describes the acquisition of her Directoire portrait collection, of which this pastel was most likely a part: “When I first bought these portraits in the Paris flea markets years ago, they were cheap. Now I can’t find any I can afford.”
[2] The pastel was sent to Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, in 1996, but the Railey descendants maintained ownership. See correspondence from Gregory Hedberg, Senior Consultant, European Art, Hirschl and Adler Galleries, to Meghan Gray, NAMA, January 24, 2018, curatorial object file.
Possibly Carol Vogel, “Design: Collecting Objectively,” The New York Times Magazine (November 26, 1989): 67.
Possibly Laurel Graeber, “The Collective Mind,” The New York Times Magazine (April 5, 1992): 50.
