Helene Hecht ca. 1931

JQAW# P_1931_100
Oil on canvas 140 x 93 cm
Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams
Unknown private collection Canada?
Picture: private photo of the owner (ca. 1985)

Helene Hecht, née Goldberg, 17.10.1892 Vienna to ?.12.1968 New York, together with her husband Leo Hecht avid art collector. The collection was Aryanized; the Hecht couple had to flee into exile.

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Exhibited

Literature

APH, catalog raisonné JQA 1995, 1995, p. 255, cat.#222, fig. 155

Provenance

Until 1938/39 the sitter.
1940 aryanized and brought to auction (Dorotheum Vienna auction 29.6.1940 Lot 17).
1940-1947 Unknown private collection
1947 restituted and exported (2.9.1947) to New York.
1947-1968 the sitter, New York.
1968- ca.1986, her family descendants, private collection Montreal, Canada.
After 1986 unknown private collection (Canada?).