LESSER URY | Flusslandschaft, Thüringen (Landscape with Stream, Thüringen)

Mathieson Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1946 

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 (titled Landscape)
(Possibly) London, Ben Uri Collection, Coronation Exhibition, 1953, (titled Italian Landscape)
London, Ben Uri Collection, Max Liebermann, Isidor Kaufmann, Lesser Ury, E. M. Lilien, Hermann Struck, Jacob Steinhardt, 1968, (titled Landscape)
(Possibly) London, Ben Uri Collection,  September 1981, Permanent Collection Exhibition
London, Ben Uri Collection, Homeless and Hidden 1, 2008, no. 22, illustrated in the catalogue

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, no. 418, illustrated p. 104

The board is stable. There is an artist pinhole to each of the four corners, as well as to the centre of the upper edge. There is some evidence of minor frame rubbing to the left and upper edges. There is an area of paper skimming to the sky in the upper right quadrant, as well as to the background of the trees on the left to the sheet, possibly original. The lower and right edges of the board are slightly frayed, not visible when framed. There is a surface scratch to the left part of the lower edge, approximately 3cm long. The pigments are bright and fresh and this work is in overall good condition.
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Sold as part of the museum's 2019 Strategic Plan to fund further collection acquisitions within the focus of the Ben Uri Research Unit for the study and digital resource of the Jewish and immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Ury Catalogue raisonné being prepared by Dr. Sibylle Gross.