1924, Guy Pene du Bois, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Dale Dine Out -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Pène du Bois's portrayals of New York's high society between World War I and II frequently record the telling body language of his protagonists. This commissioned work depicts Chester Dale, a wealthy investment banker and prominent art collector, and his first wife, Maud, a painter and writer, seated stiffly in the fashionable Hotel Brevoort. In the early 1920s, their collection featured American art and included twenty-five paintings by Pène du Bois. Several important works in the Metropolitan's collection, including Salvador Dalí's 1954 Crucifixion (in Gallery 913), came as gifts from the Dale Collection.
1924, Guy Pene du Bois, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Dale Dine Out -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Pène du Bois's portrayals of New York's high society between World War I and II frequently record the telling body language of his protagonists. This commissioned work depicts Chester Dale, a wealthy investment banker and prominent art collector, and his first wife, Maud, a painter and writer, seated stiffly in the fashionable Hotel Brevoort. In the early 1920s, their collection featured American art and included twenty-five paintings by Pène du Bois. Several important works in the Metropolitan's collection, including Salvador Dalí's 1954 Crucifixion (in Gallery 913), came as gifts from the Dale Collection.