Open Questions and Mysterious Pasts

Over the years, we have put aside works that left us with unanswered questions: works separated from their original documentation, works accompanied by unverified acquisition stories, works with illegible or unidentified signatures, and works whose attribution simply required more research. Some appeared potentially important - perhaps even major finds. Others seemed almost too good to be true. This auction brings those works together. Included are works we held back while questioning an attribution or authenticity; works on which we received conflicting opinions; works we believe may have been incorrectly attributed in the past; and even some works we considered possible...