E. & A. Silberman Galleries (Q13575004)
commercial art gallery
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private collection (Vienna, Austria);(E. & A. Silberman Gallery, New York, New York, USA);February 1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) (English)
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CRANACH 'Cupid complaining to Venus'81 x 55cm.Bought by the NG from E & A Silbermann (D), 1963NG6344ProvenanceSale of collector, Emil Goldschmidt of Frankfurt at Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 27 April 1909. Recorded in an album of photographs of paintings in Hitler’s private collection. Understood to have been chosen by Mrs Patricia Lochridge Hartwell, an American war correspondent, in 1945 from premises in Germany controlled by American armed forces and taken by her to the USA.Adolf Hitler (1889-1945);*Mrs Hartwell, New York, by 1962;*E. and A. Silbermann (D), NY;purchased by NG, 1963Questions 1933-1945Confirm details and date of acquisition by Adolf HitlerConfirm details and date of acquisition by Mrs Hartwel (English)
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Provenance: Palazzo Labia, Venice, possibly to 1898 [see note 1]. Leone Oreffice, Venice. With Julius Böhler, Munich, by 1904. Elkan Silbermann (1892–1952) and Abris Silbermann (1896–1968), Budapest; sold to an unknown buyer. Purchased by E.A. Silberman Galleries, Inc. (Elkan and Abris Silberman, dealers), New York, 1930 [see note 2]; sold to Louis M. Rabinowitz (1887–1957), Sands Point, Long Island, New York, 1937 (on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1946); given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1947Note 1: According to Momenti (1911), the painting was displayed in the dining room of the Palazzo Labia.Note 2: Established in 1928, E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, was formed by brothers Elkan and Abris Silberman (born Silbermann) as a branch of their family’s galleries in Vienna and Budapest. A letter from Abris Silberman to Mrs. Alice Wolf, research assistant at the Gallery, notes that Polymnia, the Muse of Sacred Hymn, and Thalia and Melpomene, the Muses of Comedy and Tragedy (YUAG acc. 1947.18), also by Tiepolo, had been with his and his brother’s collection in Budapest for many years and that the paintings were sold there and then re-acquired in 1930 in the United States. It is unknown whether the paintings had originally formed part of the Silbermann’s personal collection or gallery stock in Budapest. (Abris Silberman, letter to Mrs. Alice Wolf, June 12, 1946, curatorial object file) (British English)
18 September 2021
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Galerie Kahnweiler (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris [1]; acquired by Alfred Flechtheim (1878-1937), Düsseldorf, 1912 [2]; sold Paul Cassirer, Berlin and Hugo Helbing, Munich to Christian Tetzen-Lund (1852-1936), Copenhagen, Denmark, June 5, 1917 [3]; sold through Den Frie, Copenhagen, May 18/19, 1925 [4]. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, Inc., New York by 1958 [5]; sold to Adele R. Levy (1892-1960), New York, February 1958 [6]; acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1960 (Mrs. David M. Levy Bequest) [7]. (English)
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[E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, (by 1939) sold]; to Thomas Mitchell, Los Angeles (1940-1962). [Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, sold] to William A. Coolidge, gift; to Fogg Art Museum , 1964.Notes:Silberman suggested that the painting came from a Polish collection. (English)
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Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris. Until 1915 John Quinn, New York. Acquired from Vollard through Carroll Galleries, New York, April 1915 - 1924Quinn Estate, 1924 - 1926 Paul Rosenberg, Paris. By 1932 Rosenberg and Helft, London. By 1939 - until 1946 at least. (In Rosenberg collection, by 1932 - at least 1946)Keith Warner, VermontE. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York. By January 1953 - at least until end of 1953G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh. By 1955 - 1959The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of G. David Thompson in honor of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., 1959 (English)
2 November 2021
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Commissioned from the artist by Madame Jeanne Louise Guérin, Paris, 7 Apr. 1917, 1,500 francs. Jos Hessel, Paris, 1936. Raphael Gérard, Paris, by May 1938 [Paris 1938]. Galerie Carre, Paris. E. & A. Silberman Galleries, New York, by 1954 [advertisement, Art News Annual, 23 (1954), p. 180 (ill.)]. Nathan Cummings, Chicago. Sara Lee Corporation. Given to the Art Institute, 1986 (English)
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Rubens sketch illegally sold in aftermath of Second World War returned to museum in Germany (English)
24 June 2024
19 January 2025
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St. Augustinus | Lost Art-Datenbank (English)
19 January 2025
Erwerbung Herzog Ernsts II. von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg 1802 von Francois Xavier de Burtin, Brüssel (Akte 126); vor 1826 in der Kunstkammer (vgl. Inventar 1826). […]. 1935 im Herzoglichen Museum, Oberlichtsaal 2 (Akte 3405); 1943 in Reinhardsbrunn (Katalog 1943, Bl. 45); das Bild gehörte zu den 5 Ölskizzen von Rubens, die nach Coburg ausgelagert worden waren (lt. Übergabeprotokoll im März 1945) und von dort nicht wieder nach Gotha zurückkamen. Bei einem Besuch der Rubens-Ausst. in Antwerpen 1977 entdeckte der ehem. Direktor eine der seit 1945 aus Gotha vermißten Ölskizzen von Rubens 'St. Augustinius'. Als Besitzer der Ölskizzen war in der Ausstellung die Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zürich, angegeben. Die Skizze kaufte Bührle 1953 von einem Züricher Kunsthändler, der wiederum die Skizze in New York (seit 1952 in den E. & A. Silberman Galleries) erworben hatte. Eine Herausgabeforderung des Gemäldes durch Gotha wurde 1977 durch den Rechtsanwalt Emil Blättler, der als Rechtsanwalt die Stiftung vertrat, abgelehnt. Laut Auskunft von Frau Schuttwolf, Gotha befindet sich diese Ölskizze heute vermutlich in den USA (31.7.1997). (English)
Der Heilige Augustin · Peter Paul Rubens · Stiftung Sammlung E.G. Bührle (Swiss High German)
19 January 2025
E. & A. Silberman New York • by 1953 Advertisement of E. & A. Silberman Galleries, Inc., New York, illustrating Rubens, Saint Augustine, in Art Quarterly (16) 1953, p. 87.7Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt Zurich • 1953 Acquired from the above, Information given by Mr. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, son of Dr. Walter Feilchenfeldt, to Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich, on 22 April 2008. This information is corroborated by AStEGB, Letter from E. and A. Silberman Galleries, Inc., New York, to Emil Bührle, 14 September 1953, accompanying a publication of another Rubens sketch from the same series, then recently acquired by the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo (New York). (English)
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St. Albert of Louvain (English)
19 January 2025
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Portrait of Frans Hals (English)
19 January 2025
August Christoph von Wackerbarth [1662-1734];{1} Königliche Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, Germany, until 1860.{2} Possibly in the collection of wealthy ship owner from Nantes, Fernand Crouan [1845-1905]; by descent to Mr. de Lagotellerie.{3} (E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, New York);{4} Acquired by Dr. George Henry Alexander Clowes of Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1934; Clowes Fund Collection, 1958-present (C10047); on long-term loan to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Courtesy of The Clowes Fund, since 1971 (C10047); given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2015. (English)
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A Bishop Saint | Detroit Institute of Arts Museum (English)
20 January 2025
collection of Prince Polignac (Spain); possibly ca. 1936, purchased by Jean Schmit (Paris, France); 1939, purchased by (A. & E. Silberman Galleries, New York, New York, USA); 1942-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with gift of funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb (English)
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Portrait of a Gentleman (English)
20 January 2025
E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York; sold to Chester D. Tripp, Chicago, 1945 [according to letter of March 2, 1945 from Silberman to Tripp]; given to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1954. (English)
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In 1938, Westfeld was arrested, and all the artworks in his possession were auctioned in Cologne in 1939; the catalogue of the sale, which did not include the van der Neer painting, was labeled "forced sale. . . from a non-Aryan collection." Westfeld remained in custody at various prisons before being deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 and in January 1943 to Auschwitz, where he died.The MFA Boston purchased the van der Neer painting in December 1941 from E. and A. Silberman Galleries in New York, and was told by the dealer that the work had been "brought to this country by a refugee some time ago." The gallery is no longer in existence, and its records have not been located and are believed to have been destroyed. (English)
Rubens sketch illegally sold in aftermath of Second World War returned to museum in Germany (English)
24 June 2024
19 January 2025
Shortly after the war, it is understood that members of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family removed works from the museum complex, and from the storage location in Coburg, and illegally sold them. In 1952 the Rubens sketch of Saint Gregory is recorded as being sold by the New York gallery E. & A. Silberman to the Albright Art Gallery, the predecessor of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, which later became the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. (English)
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Martin Bailey
Cupid complaining to Venus then passed to New York dealer E & A Silberman.In 1963 it was bought by the National Gallery in London, for £34,000 (it is now worth millions of pounds).At that point Silberman told the gallery (incorrectly) that the painting had been sold to them by ‘family descendants’ of the buyer at a 1909 auction. (English)
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The gallery does not appear on the "red-flag" list, but a painting with this provenance should be researched to the fullest extent possible (English)
Jane Milosch
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In 1938, Westfeld was arrested, and all the artworks in his possession were auctioned in Cologne in 1939; the catalogue of the sale, which did not include the van der Neer painting, was labeled "forced sale. . . from a non-Aryan collection." Westfeld remained in custody at various prisons before being deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942 and in January 1943 to Auschwitz, where he died.The MFA Boston purchased the van der Neer painting in December 1941 from E. and A. Silberman Galleries in New York, and was told by the dealer that the work had been "brought to this country by a refugee some time ago." The gallery is no longer in existence, and its records have not been located and are believed to have been destroyed. (English)
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