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What happened to Ines Folville's portret ? (UPDATE: also Amilcar)

This a low resolution picture of the lost painting by Heinrich Gottselig, Frankfurt am Main, September 1925. The lady in the picture is racing driver Ines Keil-Folville , who was very successful with cars of the so far to us unknown marque Steiger (in German, but fabulous website!). Today's feature is a request by Annette C. Müller who describes the colours of the original painting from childhood memory: "We know, that the colours were reddish, the car is red, she wore a kind of yellow trench coat, the picture has strong bright warm colours, that's all we remember." Annette hopes to find back the painting of her racing great-grandmother. "The painting was sold in Frankfurt am Main when my great-grandmother died in 1980. Her daughter, my grandmum, just sold nearly everything, without asking us. It was such a shame, unfortunately we only got to know about it when everything was already sold. So it must have been one of those salesmen who buys estates." Please let us know, if you have seen the painting or know about its whereabouts.

Update by Detlef Kayser: "Ines was not only succesful with Steiger cars but as well with an Amilcar CGSs!"