Bellingcat Open Source Challenge - Denial of Provenance
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Denial of Provenance
This OSINT challenge is from the section Cultural Confusion. This puzzle was created by Alice Bientinesi, ARCA.
Sometimes, artworks lack supporting documentation or have legitimate gaps in their circulation histories. But sometimes gaps in ownership, suspicious dealers, or phrases like “from a private Swiss collection” can indicate that an artwork may have a contentious history.
At times the names and locations of problematic handlers are intentionally omitted or obfuscated from sales records and other published information.
It appears that the accession record contains a mistake in the provenance record regarding one of the possessors, which could hide a darker history.
What is the name of the venue where this possessor met a client on 14 May 1942?