| Description | Includes information relating to the sale & purchase of, as well as general research about, the following works of art:
-fifteen untitled works
Also includes:
-letter from Letitia Simpson to C. R. Henschel, 25 August 1930, forwarding her typed notes (13pp) summarising research on the following paintings:
Rembrandt: 'Pt. of a Young Man'; 'Pallas Athene'; 'The Writing Master'; 'Woman with a pink'; 'Saskia with a mirror'; 'Pt. of a Jew with a stick or cane'; 'The Samaritan Woman'; 'A Young Woman at her Toilette'; 'The Parable of the Vineyard'; 'Pt. of an Old grey-bearded man, hands clasped in front, small cap on head'; 'Pt. of a Man about forty'
Hals: 'Pt. of a Man, gloved hand on breast'; 'Pt. of a Man, hand on hip'; and 'Pt. of an Officer'
Rubens: 'Pt. of Helena Fourment'
-typed document titled 'The Dutch Critic of the present Rembrandt Research and recently rediscovered Rembrandt Pictures by C. Hofstede de Groot', German Editorial Institute, Stuttgart and Berlin, 1922 (52pp)
-thirteen letters between Letitia Simpson; F. Gordon Roe, The Connoisseur; R. R. Tatlock, The Burlington Magazine; Dr A. L. Mayer, and F. Bruckmann, Pantheon; and T. Leman Hare, Apollo, dated 24 February-4 April 1933, concerning images to be used in the catalogue for M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 'Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Rembrandt: Held for the Benefit of the Adopt-a-Family Committee of the Emergency Unemployment Relief Fund', April 1933
-two letters from Letitia Simpson to Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, dated 15 March and 15 May 1929, forwarding lists of works of art by Rembrandt which were once in Knoedler's possession, for inclusion in de Groot's supplement to Wilhelm von Bode's eight volume catalogue of the works of Rembrandt
-nine letters between Letitia Simpson and Chester H. Johnson Galleries; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.; The Lucerne Fine Arts Co.; Walter Dowdeswell; Julius W. Boehler; Jacques Seligmann & Fils; and Willy Preyer, dated 19 April-2 July 1929, concerning works of art by Rembrandt which had been sold by Knoedler |