Robert Frederick Blum
Robert Frederick Blum (1857–1903)
Geisha at Her Toilet, c. 1891–92.
Pastel on paper, 14 1/4 x 11 1/2 in.
Signed with artist's device lower right: Blum
Provenance: Alfred Corning Clark, New York; private collection, New York; Manoogian collection, Grosse Point, Michigan; Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York; private collection, Atherton, California, 1987; Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York; Max N. Berry, 1995–2026
Exhibited: New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., American Masterworks on Paper, November 23, 1985-January 4, 1986, pp. 6, 25, no. 21, illustrated (as Geisha); New York, Hollis Taggart Galleries, Favorite Places: Landscapes and Interiors by American Impressionists, May 18-June 24, 1995, p. 8, illustrated (as Geisha); New York, Hollis Taggart Galleries, American Artists in Japan, May 21-June 29, 1996; Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Archives of American Art, No Day Without a Line: Whistler in the Archives of American Art, October 9, 2003-January 14, 2004.