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PAVEL TCHELITCHEW Portrait of Mrs. Oliver Jennings (Mary Brewster Jennings).
Brush and ink and wash on paper, double-sided. 305x260 mm; 12x10 1/4 inches.
Provenance: Estate of the artist; Collection of Lincoln Kirstein, New York; inherited by (Alexander) Jensen Yow, New York; private collection, New York.
The sitter, Mary Brewster Jennings (1924-1995), was the daughter of Benjamin Brewster Jennings (1898-1968) a founder and president of the Socony-Vacuum company, which became, in 1955, the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony), which would later become Mobil Oil, and then merged to become part of ExxonMobil.
