Lot 18
  • 18

Lesser Ury

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Lesser Ury
  • Flusslandschaft, Thüringen
  • Signed L. Ury (lower left)
  • Pastel on paper board
  • 14 by 19 3/4 in.
  • 35.5 by 50.2 cm

Provenance

Mathieson Gallery, London
Acquired from the above in 1946 

Exhibited

London, Ben Uri Collection, Recent Additions to the Ben Uri Permanent Collection of Works of Art, 1946
(Possibly) London, Ben Uri Collection, Selections from the Ben Uri Collection, 1946 (as Landscape)
(Possibly) London, Ben Uri Collection, Coronation Exhibition, 1953, (as Italian Landscape)
London, Ben Uri Collection, Max Liebermann, Isidor Kaufmann, Lesser Ury, E. M. Lilien, Hermann Struck, Jacob Steinhardt, 1968, (as Landscape)
(Possibly) London, Ben Uri Collection,  September 1981, Permanent Collection Exhibition
London, Ben Uri Collection, Homeless and Hidden 1, 2008, no. 22 in the catalogue

Literature

Ben Uri Collection, Ben Uri Art Society Permanent Collection Catalogue, London, 1959, no.  207
Walter Schwab & Julia Weiner, Jewish Artists: The Ben Uri Collection: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, London, 1994, p. 103 no. 418, illustrated p. 104

Condition

Pastel on paper board. In generally good condition aside from losses at extreme edges, pinholes at upper and lower left corners, and a two inch vertical scratch at the upper right in the sky.
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