"The transfer of works of art from Vollard to Slomovic is shrouded in the fog of war and has been the subject of much speculation.   By 1940, the Nazi blitzkrieg had already struck Poland and would soon crush France. Slomovic returned to Yugoslavia, taking many of the artworks with him thanks to the assistance of Yugoslav diplomats in Paris. He planned an exhibition of the works in Belgrade, the country’s capital, but eventually mounted the show of paintings, watercolors, drawings and books in a fine arts center in Zagreb instead. Many of these works are now held by the National Museum in Belgrade. In any case, soon after the 1940 Zagreb exhibition came down, the Nazis marched into Yugoslavia, and Slomovic, fearing the worst as a Jew, fled with his family to a village outside Belgrade. In a farmhouse there, he hid his pictures in four metal containers and one round cylinder behind a false wall. Eventually, local people betrayed the family to the Nazis, who detained Slomovic along with his father and brother. Soon the three were transferred with other Jews to an execution camp. Erich Slomovic was 27." (The Mysterious Mr. Slomovic, artnet.com)

The present photograph is from a series of similar format images attributed to Chlomovitch by the Musée Fernand Léger.