Images: http://www.flikr.com (S. Swayne, A. Mourzenko). A postcard published by the Musée du Luxembourge about 1920 shows the painting without the dark markings now present on the hip and legs. Image: private collection (reproduced with permission). The first recorded owner was Sir Edmund Davis, an Australian-born British mining financier, who made his fortune in South …

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