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Provenance: Chick Pea Conspiracy, Charity Auction, 15 June 1971, New York
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

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Literature: S. Kasher, Max's Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll, New York, 2010, p. 32 (illustrated).

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Notes: Property from the Estate of Korda Herskovits Caplan

Korda H. Caplan was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on March 29, 1918 to parents who had fled the 1905 pogroms in the Ukraine. In 1943, she married Arthur Herskovits, a prominent furrier who travelled the world importing and exporting raw skins for the family fur business. After moving to New York, she quickly acquired an interest in art through her husband's niece, Celeste Bartos, with a particular passion for modern art. She started collecting in the late 1940s and was a docent at the Frick Collection and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In 1974, her first husband died. She later married Leonard Caplan Q.C., a prominent barrister and Treasurer of Gray's Inn, in 1977. Living in the Temple, she became friends with many in the legal community there, including Lord Denning, Lord and Lady Keith and a former Lord Chancellor, Frederick Elwyn-Jones. Her many charitable activities included UJA/Federation and Yeshiva University/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She was a member for many years of the Lotos Club in New York and the Reform Club in London. Property from this collection can be found in lots 160 and 185.

Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
Untitled
signed 'de Kooning' (lower left)
oil on paper mounted on canvas
26½ x 21¾ in. (67.3 x 55.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1960s.