A small painting, Head of an Old Woman, was once offered to me by a dealer who wasn't sure who had painted it. It looked to me like a Daumier, or possibly a Rembrandt, and without knowing for certain, I purchased it. Several months later, while away on vacation, I happened to be reading Art and Appreciation by Leo Stein. In it Stein describes the first painting that he and his sister, Gertrude Stein, bought. It was a little Daumier Head of an Old Woman from Vollard. This was a wry exciting discovery. When I returned to New York a few weeks later, I immediately looked up the various books on Gertrude Stein and found a photograph of the walls of her home, which were completely covered with pictures. There among the pictures on her wall was the portrait I had purchased. It was later exhibited at the Tate Gallery in London, and is now listed in a book by Daumier expert K.E. Maison on his complete works.