Playing children
Adalbert (Bela) Parlagi acquired the painting from the S. Kende auction house in Vienna at the sale of Sammlung Prof. Dr. E. Ullmann, Wien, Nachlass Teil II, on November 26-27, 1937 (Lot 166, Illustration 8).
In April 1938, Parlagi and his family emigrated from Vienna to London via Switzerland; December 7, 1938, Parlagi put his art collection into storage with the shipping company Zdenko Dworak at their warehouse located in Vienna XVIII, Gersthoferstrasse 8 & 10; the Gestapo confiscated Parlagi’s property from the warehouse and auctioned it through the Vugesta at the Dorotheum in Vienna; the painting was acquired by Fiser-Traub, Vienna, Prague, at the Dorotheum sale of June 26-27, 1941 (Lot 102, Illustration 2).
The painting last appeared on November 13, 2006, at the Galerie Fischer auction house in Luzern where it sold (Lot 1955, Illustrated in color). Current whereabouts unknown.
Bild 1: Dorotheum, Wien, 26.–27. Juni 1941 (Katalog Nr. 157, Los 102, Abbildung 10); Bild 2: S. Kende, Wien, Sammlung Prof. Dr. E. Ullmann, 26.–27. November 1937 (Los 166, Abbildung 8); Galerie Fischer, Luzern, 13. November 2006 (Los 1955, Farbabbildung); Lexikon der österreichischen Provenienzforschung, Adalbert Parlagi: Externer Link