Editing September Morn (section)

===Russia and Paris===
The oil baron {{ill|Leon Mantashev|ru|Манташев, Левон Александрович}}{{efn|Also Mantacheff {{harv|MET, September Morn}}. The son of Armenian oil magnate [[Alexander Mantashev]], Leon was known for his extravagant lifestyle. Robert W. Tolf, in his history of the Russian oil industry, describes him as "Russia's greatest gambler, a collector of paintings, race horses, and beautiful women" {{harv|Tolf|1976|p=100}}.}} acquired the original ''September Morn'' in {{circa}}&nbsp;1913, for a price of $10,000{{efn|${{Inflation|US|30000|1913|fmt=c}} today.{{Inflation-fn|US}}}} and brought it with him to Russia.{{sfn|Monfried|1971|p=9}} After the outbreak of the [[October Revolution]] the painting was feared destroyed.{{sfn|Toledo Blade 1957}} Following Mantashev's escape from Russia, pieces of his sizeable collection that were considered to have artistic value were sent to museums, but there was no information regarding works such as ''September Morn''.{{sfn|The Milwaukee Journal 1933}} By 1933 Chabas was seeking information regarding his work's fate, which ''[[The Milwaukee Journal]]'' suggested was "hanging in some crowded Russian room, its owner perhaps completely ignorant of its world fame".{{sfn|The Milwaukee Journal 1933}} At the time several American galleries had copies purported to be the original.{{sfn|The Montreal Gazette 1935}}

The painting, however, was safe: Mantashev had smuggled it out of the country,{{Sfn|The Milwaukee Journal 1937}} reportedly "rip[ping] it out of its frame" when the revolution broke out.{{sfn|The Montreal Gazette 1935}} In the early 1930s,{{efn|The Met gives 1931 {{harv|MET, September Morn}} while a 1935 ''Montreal Gazette'' article states that the sale happened the preceding year {{harv|The Montreal Gazette 1935}}}} in desperate need of funds, he sold ''September Morn'' to the [[Armenians|Armenian]] art collector and philanthropist [[Calouste Gulbenkian]] for $30,000;{{efn|${{Inflation|US|30000|1933|fmt=c}} today.{{Inflation-fn|US}}}}{{sfn|MET, September Morn}} it was the last painting he owned.{{sfn|Levine|2007|p=48}} A [[United Press]] reporter discovered the painting, which was framed as a [[tondo (art)|tondo]], in Gulbenkian's Paris home in 1935.{{sfn|Sterling|Salinger|1966|pp=222–223}}{{sfn|The Montreal Gazette 1935}}{{sfn|The Berkshire County Eagle 1957}} There it hung with works by artists such as [[Claude Monet]] and [[Paul Cézanne]].{{sfn|Carson|1961}} By 1937 ''September Morn'' was on display in the [[Musée du Luxembourg]], hung between works by [[Jean-François Raffaëlli]] and [[Eugène Carrière]].{{Sfn|The Milwaukee Journal 1937}} The curator [[John Walker (curator)|John Walker]], who between 1947 and 1955 would try to acquire the Gulbenkian Collection for the [[National Gallery of Art]], described it as 'Gulbenkian's only lapse in taste.'{{sfn|Horizon 1970, How I Didn't Get}} After Gulbenkian's death in 1955, the painting was acquired by Wildenstein and Company of New York.{{sfn|Sterling|Salinger|1966|pp=222–223}}