Title from caption on object: “Disarmament Conference, After Herriot Banquet at Hotel des Bergues”, July 1932

Inscription

retouching across recto in gray paint; crop marks and printing notes across recto in orange and black crayon; on verso, by artist, bottom center in graphite: Personal Contact is a speedier & more / effective way of getting things done.; retouching across recto in black ink; crop marks and notes across recto in black and orange crayon; on verso, by Maggie Salomon, across top in graphite: Disarmament Conference / After Herriot banquet at Hotel des Bergues. / Left to right, Norman Davis, [Edvard] Benesch [sic] (back), Herriot / [Joseph] Paul-Boncour, [Rudolf] Nadolny (Germany), Sir John Simon, / [Maxim] Litvinoff. / standing left: French, / Minister Leygnes; center stamped in purple ink: Dr. Erich Salomon / CHARLOTTENBURG / Höelderlinstrasse 11 / Amt Westend 441; by unknown hand, center in red crayon: $10--; center right in graphite circled: #3; center right in graphite perpendicular: 10736.7; lower center stamped in purple ink: MAY 6-1933 / EDITORIAL AUDITING DEPT.; by unknown hand, lower right illegible printing notes in graphite circled and crossed out; lower right stamped in red ink circled in graphite: 2231; lower right stamped in purple ink circled in graphite: MAY 21 1933; lower right stamped in red ink circled and crossed out in graphite: 2095; lower right stamped in purple ink crossed out in graphite: APR 30 1933

Provenance

(sale, Swann Auction Galleries, New York); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

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