By the Window

Provenance

Lillian Heidenberg Gallery, New York
Private collection, New England, until 2007
Sale, Christie’s, New York, New York, September 12, 2007, lot 73
Sale, Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut, May 1, 2014, lot 69
Godel & Co., Bedford, New York

Exhibited

Salmagundi Club, New York, New York, 1930, no. 5

Salmagundi Club, New York, New York, Thumb-Box Exhibition, November–December, 1938, no. 189

Literature

Alexander W. Katlan, The Salmagundi Club Painting Exhibition Records 1889 to 1939, Alexander W. Katlan & Salmagundi Club NYC, 2008, 219

Related Works

Margaret by the Window, 1914, oil on canvas, 30 ⅛ x 25 ⅛ inches, National Academy of Design, New York, New York

Note

By the Window is part of a series of paintings Dufner created in the 1910s featuring women seated near windows. Related works include Margaret by the Window (c. 1914–15), a composition set in the same interior, and Gladys by the Window, exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1913. The former is held in the current collection.