Maxfield Parrish
1870 - 1966
LADY VIOLETTA AND THE KNAVE OF HEARTS OPEN THE OVEN DOOR TO SEE IF THE TARTS ARE DONE
signed with initials M P (lower right); also signed Maxfield Parrish:/Windsor: Vermont, dated 1924 and titled "The Lady Violetta and the Knave of Hearts open the oven door to see if the tarts are done." on the reverse
oil on board
20 1/8 by 16 3/8 inches
(51.1 by 41.6 cm)
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Scott & Fowles, New York
Private collection, 1925 (acquired from the above)
Estate of the artist, 1976
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts
Alma Gilbert, Hillsborough, California, 1977 (acquired from the above)
Gary F. Atherton, Atherton, California, 1977
Alma Gilbert, Hillsborough, California
Mary Bell, 1984 (acquired from the above)
Drs. Tom Montag and Lisa Stuart, California, 1992
William Helvey, Los Altos, California, 1994
Acquired by the present owner, 2013
(probably) New York, Scott & Fowles, An Exhibition of Paintings by Maxfield Parrish, November-December 1925
Windsor, Vermont, The Oaks: Maxfield Parrish Museum, June-August 1978 (as Lady Violetta & The Knave and dated 1923)
Cornish, New Hampshire, Cornish Colony Gallery & Museum, Cornish Colony Centennial Celebration, June-October 1998 (as Lady Violetta and the Knave and dated 1923)
Palm Beach, Florida, The Society for the Four Arts; Reno, Nevada, Nevada Museum of Art; San Diego, California, The San Diego Museum of Art; Savannah, Georgia, Telfair Museum of Art; Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville Museum of Art; Memphis, Tennessee, Memphis Brooks Museum, Maxfield Parrish: Master of Make-Believe, January 2005-May 2006, no. 3, p. 44, illustrated p. 45 (as Lady Violetta and the Knave and dated 1923)
New Orleans, Louisiana, M.S. Rau Antiques, Exhibited in America, Illustrated: Six Decades of Saturday Evening Post Covers, November 2015-January 2016 (as The Knave of Hearts: Lady Violetta & The Knave)
Louise Saunders, The Knave of Hearts, New York, 1925, p. 27, illustrated
Coy Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish, New York, 1973, no. 706, p. 206 (as Violetta and Knave Examining the Tarts)
Paul W. Skeeters, Maxfield Parrish: The Early Years 1893-1930, Secaucus, New Jersey, 1973, p. 268, illustrated p. 269 (as Lady Violetta and the Knave Observing the Tarts Which Have Become Soft and Runny)
Alma Gilbert, Maxfield Parrish: The Masterworks, Berkeley, California, 1992, p. 52, illustrated fig. 2.32, p. 50 (as Lady Violetta and the Knave and dated 1923)
Laurence S. Cutler, Judy Goffman Cutler and the National Museum of American Illustration, Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists, Edison, New Jersey, 2004, p. 216, illustrated (as The Knave of Hearts (Violetta and the Knave Examine the Tarts) and dated 1925)