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While doing my art reading for the day I was pleasantly surprised to run across the sale of a Randall Davey watercolor mentioned in an article by the international art site artnet.

The article is about the great-granddaughter of a Jewish art patron who spent years tracking down his collection of art that was suspected to have been looted by the Nazis. The research led to a book authored by Pauline Baer de Perignon, “The Vanished Collection”. It also led to the sale at auction of one of the restituted works. When “Lady as Pomona” sold at Sotheby’s in January, the author, and one of 20 heirs, used her windfall to purchase a piece of art in the spirit of her great-grandfather, Jules Strauss. Strauss was a lover of art and benefactor to the Louvre, donating many of the ornate frames now used to display its masterpieces.

After the sale she visited the gallery of a friend in New York, admiring a beautiful watercolor on the wall. The dealer told her the story of the painting, “about a man falling in love with a statue in the Jardin des Tuileries next to the Louvre
museum”.

Randall Davey returns to Paris!
Untitled, (Statues in a Garden) by Randall Davey.