Lesser Ury

Julius Gustav and Rose Licht, Berlin (by 1921)

Carl S. W. Lüth, Berlin (by 1929)

Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 26 November 1929, lot 171 (consigned by the above)

Dr Karl Schapira (Carlos Soria), Berlin and New York (acquired from the above sale and until at least 1950s or 1960s)

Galerie Rudolf Neumeister, Munich (acquired circa late 1950s or 1960s)

Herbert Quandt, Bad Homburg (acquired from the above in 1964)

Grisebach GmbH, Berlin, 4 June 1999, lot 7

Acquired from the above sale by the family of the present owners

Berlin, Galerie Gurlitt, Lesser Ury, 1980, no. 42

Berlin, Verlag Secessionhaus, Berliner Secession 1922: Lesser Ury, 1922, no. 54 (titled Unter de Linden)

Berlin, National-Galerie, Lesser Ury, Memorial Exhibition, 1931, no. 18, illustrated

New York, The Jewish Museum, Lesser Ury, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, 1951, no. 8, p. 10, illustrated (titled Couplé Unter den Linden and with inverted dimensions)

New York, Hirshl & Adler, Lesser Ury, The First Great German Impressionist and Pre-Expressionist Master, circa 1953, no. 3

Berlin, Bezirksamt Tiergarten and Düsseldorf, Galerie G. Paffrath, Lesser Ury, zum 100, Geburtstag, 1961, no. 6, illustrated in colour (with inverted dimensions)

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Secession, Europaische Kunst um die Jahrhundertwende, 1964, nos. 580 and 587, p. 27, illustrated

Wuppertal, Von der Heydt-Museum, Von Liebermann zu Kollwitz, 1977, no. 77, n.p., illustrated

Cornelius Gurlitt, 'Von den Kunstausstellungen: L. Ury und H. Thoma', in Die Gegenwart, Wochenschrift für Literatur, Kunst und öffentliches Leben, no. 37, January 1890, no.8, p. 125 (titled Die Linden)

Adolph Donath, Lesser Ury, Seine Stellung in der modernen deutschen Malerei, Berlin, 1921, pl. 11, p. 27, illustrated (titled Unter den Linden)

Max Osborn, 'Die Ury Ausstellung' in Vossische Zeitung, January 1922, evening edition, (titled Spaziergängerpaar Unter den Linden)

Hanns Schulze, 'Lesser Ury, 42.Ausstellung der Berliner Sezession, Zur heutigen Eröffnung', in 8 Uhr Abendblatt, Berlin, January 1922, (titled Unter den Linden)

Anton Sailer, 'Regennächte in Berlin, Lesser Ury, Poet der Pferdedroschken und des nächtlichen Asphalts', in Die Kunst und das schöne Heim, Monatsschrift für Malerei, Plastik, Graphik, Architektur und

Wohnkultur, vol. 61, no. 2, Munich, November 1962, p. 70 (titled Dame und Herr Unter den Linden)

Ulrich Finke, German Painting from Romanticism to Expressionism, London, 1974, p. 161 (titled Lady and Gentleman in Unter den Linden in Berlin)

Exh Cat., Berlin, Berlin Museum, City Images, Berlin in Painting from the 17th century to Present, no. 13, pp. 173-200

Joachim Seyppel, Lesser Ury, Der Maler der alten City, Leben-Kunst-Wirkung Eine Monographie, Berlin, 1987, no. 85, pl. 4, p. 32, illustrated

Exh Cat., Berlin, Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Lesser Ury, Magic of Light, 1995, no. 11 (Schapira directory), pp. 92-3, illustrated