"Mrs Gilbert Kahn (née Sara Jane Heliker), former Broadway dancer, commissions Boutet de Monvel for a portrait in 1938, showing her before her Palm Beach villa. The same year, the painter executes this composition, that he kept for himself, probably for the later Profiles exhibition in New York, which the artist had in mind." http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/collection-boutet-de-monvel-pf1639/lot.98.html