Forest gorge with a woman walking
Adalbert (Bela) Parlagi acquired the painting from the S. Kende auction house in Vienna at the sale of Sammlung Prof. Dr. E. Ullmann, Wien, Nachlass Teil II, on November 26-27, 1937 (Lot 133, Illustration IX).
In April 1938, Parlagi and his family emigrated from Vienna to London via Switzerland; December 7, 1938, Parlagi put his art collection into storage with the shipping company Zdenko Dworak at their warehouse located in Vienna XVIII, Gersthoferstrasse 8 & 10; the Gestapo confiscated Parlagi’s property from the warehouse and auctioned it through the Vugesta at the Dorotheum in Vienna; the painting was acquired by Meuke or Meyke at the Dorotheum sale of February 24-27, 1942 (Lot 191).
Current whereabouts unknown.
Bild 1: S. Kende, Wien, Sammlung Prof. Dr. E. Ullmann, 26.–27. November 1937 (Los 133, Abbildung IX); Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung, Adalbert Parlagi: Externer Link