Lot 434
  • 434

Lesser Ury

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Lesser Ury
  • Zwei Zeitung lesende Herren im Café (Two gentlemen reading the newspaper in a Café)
  • signed L. Ury and dated 1913 (lower left)
  • pastel on board
  • 67 by 52.9cm., 26 1/4 by 20 3/4 in.

Provenance

Galerie Stieglitz, Tel Aviv
Dov Jacobovitz, Israel (acquired from the above in the 1950s)
Thence by decent to the present owner

Exhibited

Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv Museum,Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Lesser Ury (1861-1931), Memorial Exhibition commemorating the 100th Anniversary of his Birth, 1961, no. 54 

Condition

The board is stable. There are a few pinholes in places to the edges and some minor frame rubbing to the extreme edges. This work is in overall good condition.
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