Someone Might Have Relocated It
Barki assumed that the painting was originally bought during the 1928 exhibition. “That was when it was last exhibited and, as most of the buyers were Jewish, it probably left the country as a result of the war,” he assumed. “After the wars, revolutions, and tumult of the 20th century many Hungarian masterpieces are lost, scattered around the world.” But how it traveled from Hungary to California will likely remain a mystery.