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PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT PRIVATE COLLECTION, WESTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Lot 66

Henry R. Rittenberg
(1879-1969)
The Jewel Box 30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (76.8 x 64.1 cm.)

7 November 2023, 14:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$5,760 inc. premium

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Henry R. Rittenberg (1879-1969)

The Jewel Box
signed 'Rittenberg' (upper left)
oil on canvas
30 1/4 x 25 1/4 in. (76.8 x 64.1 cm.)
Painted in 1919.

Footnotes

Provenance
E. & A. Milch, Inc., New York, 1919.
M.A. Newhouse & Son, Inc., Saint Louis.
Private collection, Seattle.
Sale, Bonhams, New York, November 19, 2019, lot 51, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale.

Literature
"The Jewel Box: From a Painting by Henry R. Rittenberg," New York Tribune, November 30, 1919, vol. LXXIX, no. 26,677, graphic section, pt. 5, p. 1, illustrated.

The sitter in the present work is believed to be Henry R. Rittenberg's wife seated in the artist's furnished studio that overlooked New York's Central Park.

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