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(Guy Péne du Bois) A 20th-century American painter depicts a wealthy investment banker and prominent art collector seated with his first wife at the fashionable Hotel Brevoort. The artist often portrays New York’s high society in the time between World Wars I&11, (1924 pictured) depicting cafes, theatres and twenties flappers culture. Péne du Bois’ painting lies in the Met, his other works reside at; the Smithsonian, National Gallery of Arts, Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum. Gifted from the Dale Collection along with Salvador Dalí’s; Cruxifixtion (a piece when his interest in surrealism diminished and he became fascinated with atom theory).