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...brother owned many a Chabas painting of bathing nudes but not September Morn. But TIME is indebted to Subscriber Church and to an anonymous TIME-reader for helping pick up September Morn's trail which previously stopped dead at Moscow. Thither the painting had been taken by Leon Mantacheff, who bought it in 1912 for 50,000 francs. After the Russian Revolution it mysteriously disappeared. TIME'S informant reported that as recently as 1929 he had seen September Morn in Mantacheff's Paris home, that Mantacheff related how he smuggled the canvas out of Russia. Last week...
Artist Chabas took his picture back to Paris and promptly sold it to a rich Russian collector named Leon Mantacheff for $10,000. Through the Russian Revolution it remained in Moscow, then mysteriously disappeared. If it has been destroyed, if it exists in some little known Soviet museum or decorates a Commissar's private office, Artist Chabas would dearly like to know...
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