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Lot Description

Louis Ritman

(American, 1889-1963)

Lady by a Window

, 1918

oil on canvas

signed L. Ritman and dated (lower right)

47 x 39 ½ inches.

Property from a Private Collection, sold to benefit the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago

This lot will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné by Richard H. Love and Michael Preston Worley.

Provenance:
The artist
Estate of the above, Maurice Ritman, brother of the artist
Gordon Collection
R.H. Love Galleries, Inc., Chicago
Geist Collection R.H. Love Galleries, Inc., Chicago
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2001

Exhibited:
Chicago, R.H. Love Galleries, Louis Ritman: The Giverny Years, September 18-October 18, 1987
Daytona Beach, Florida, Museum of Arts & Sciences; Owensboro, Kentucky, Owensboro Museum of Fine Art; and Huntsville, Alabama, Hunstville Museum of Art, The Genteel Tradition in American Painting, October 26, 1997-May 26, 1999

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