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A Louis Welden Hawkins for Minneapolis
29/11/25 - Acquisition - Minneapolis, Institute of Art - New addition to the impressionist and post-impressionist gallery of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, recently enriched by Eilif Peterssen’s large landscape (see the news item of 3/16/22), a canvas by Louis Weldon Hawkins (ill. 1) was acquired thanks to the Brad Radichel Fund given in honor of Gabriel and Yvonne Weisberg, from the gallery Talabardon et Gautier, which had presented it at the latest edition of the Tefaf (see the article). Its Home, with its original frame (ill. 2), is the first work by the artist to enter the American museum. It had reappeared, under different titles (Tree Lying in the Garden and A Corner of the Garden), several times on the French, American, and then English art market in recent decades, most…