Let Us Now Not Boast of Our Worldly Possessions with Lynley McAlpine Lynley McAlpine, SAMA’s Associate Curator of Provenance Research, presents a follow-up to her recent book, Let Us Now Not Boast of Our Worldly Possessions: Provenance Stories from the San Antonio Museum of Art. She describes why provenance research is an essential ethical responsibility for museums, reveals behind-the-scenes evidence for the histories of artworks in SAMA’s collection, and shares new results of her research into the fascinating—and often eccentric—people who once owned them.
It's believed that around the 1950s, a U.S. soldier stole the bust and brought it to the states, which is how it eventually ended up at the thrift store.