Nickolas Muray turns a Pabst advertisement into a wonderful portrait of Edward G. Robinson, c. 1950. Can anyone identify the painting? I'm assuming it's from Robinson's own collection. Perhaps it's on this list of 40 works lent to MOMA: https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/press_archives/1685/releases/MOMA_1953_0015_15.pdf?2010
Indeed, it is! Amongst the 40 works that Edward G. Robinson lent to MOMA in 1953 was Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's L'Italienne ou La Femme à la Manche Jaune (The Italian Woman, or the Woman with Yellow Sleeve), about 1870. It's now in the @NationalGallery in London.
Life Magazine's Yale Joel document's three paintings from Edward G. Robinson's collection: Rouault's Court Room Scene, Bonnard's Still Life & Vuillard's Interior, April 1957. Robinson had to sell his entire collection in 1956 to pay for a divorce; these were new purchases!
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