105. Royalty Hunting Deer
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105. Royalty Hunting Deer
ink, watercolours, gold on paper, 10 x 17 cm, 17x10
PROVENANCE
the '30s-'50s, the collection of Romanian diplomat Basil Stoica (1889 - 1959), a close acquaintance of Thomas Masaryk and Ionel I.C. Brătianu, speaker of 14 foreign languages, a champion of the founding and consecration of Greater Romania, a Chairperson of the National League of Romanians in America in 1918, a Minister Plenipotentiary in Bulgaria and Albania (1930-1936), the Low Lands (1937-1939), Secretary General of the Minister of Foreign Affairs (1939-1945), a negotiator of the Romanian cause as a cobelligerent country at the Paris Peace Conference in 1946; deceased at Jilava after 9 years of detention; confiscated from the diplomat's family in 1977 by the National Museum of Art of Romania; in 2009, following the fall of the communist regime and a long line of lawsuits, it was returned to the diplomat's heirs.
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