Note

The present painting once belonged to Marianne Byrne O'Brien Reynolds, a dancer with Ziegfeld Follies, as well as on the Broadway stage in Joseph Fields The Doughgirls (1942), and featured in the movies The Very Thought of You (1944) and Cinderella Jones (1946). Byrne met her husband, tobacco heir R. J. “Dick” Reynolds, Jr. during a trip to Hollywood in 1943. The pair married the same year following Dick's scandalous 3 million dollar settlement. Marianne and R. J. Jr. maintained residences in Manhattan and the affluent Village of Bal Harbour on Miami Beach, FL. Active socially during Miami’s dynamic cultural and demographic transition in the 1970s and 1980s, Marianne, among her many other elite associations, was a member of the exclusive Bath Club on Collins Avenue. During their seven-year marriage (they divorced in 1952), Marianne and Dyck had two children. Their colorful, and mildly scandalous love story is told in The Gilded Leaf, centered around the R. J. Reynolds family, and co-authored by the couple's son Patrick C. Reynolds. Marianne passed away in her Bal Harbour home in 1985, and now rests in Woodside's Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum, in New York.