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Lot Essay
This work will be illustrated in the forthcoming addendum to the Macke Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde by Ursula Heiderich.
Ms Jane Wade Lombard, a native of Kansas City, Mo. came to New York at the age of twenty and quickly found her first niche as a Conover model. After a year, during which she was featured in full-page ads in such publications as the New York Times Sunday magazine, Ms Wade "fell in love" with art and soon was mentored by the great art dealer, Curt Valentin. "I heard that Curt Valentin needed a secretary, so I went to see him. "Do you paint?" he asked me. "No," I said. "Then you're hired"." Wade revered her illustrious teacher, and after his death established a collection in his honour at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.
Seasoned by a quarter of a century in the art world, she struck out on her own and founded Jane Wade Ltd. in 1965. Her clients included Joseph Pulitzer, Joseph Hirshhorn, and Norton Simon. She provided them and others with works by Picasso, Matisse, Brancusi, Moore, Lipchitz, Chagall, Leger, Calder, Klee and Mondrian, among others.
Ms Jane Wade Lombard, a native of Kansas City, Mo. came to New York at the age of twenty and quickly found her first niche as a Conover model. After a year, during which she was featured in full-page ads in such publications as the New York Times Sunday magazine, Ms Wade "fell in love" with art and soon was mentored by the great art dealer, Curt Valentin. "I heard that Curt Valentin needed a secretary, so I went to see him. "Do you paint?" he asked me. "No," I said. "Then you're hired"." Wade revered her illustrious teacher, and after his death established a collection in his honour at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.
Seasoned by a quarter of a century in the art world, she struck out on her own and founded Jane Wade Ltd. in 1965. Her clients included Joseph Pulitzer, Joseph Hirshhorn, and Norton Simon. She provided them and others with works by Picasso, Matisse, Brancusi, Moore, Lipchitz, Chagall, Leger, Calder, Klee and Mondrian, among others.