Lot 168
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168
Lesser Ury
Der Titusbogen in Rom, 1890.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 29,000 Sold:
€ 29,670 / $ 34,417 (incl. surcharge)
Lesser Ury
1861 - 1931
Der Titusbogen in Rom. 1890.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left. 29 x 39.5 cm (11.4 x 15.5 in). [EH].
• Significant provenance: Directly from the artist’s heirs.
• Rare testimony of Ury’s brief but artistically productive stay in Rome.
• In 1890, Lesser Ury traveled to Italy on a scholarship from the Berlin Academy of Arts.
• Lesser Ury made the diversity of diffuse light the subject of his painting.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (1931, estate number 27).
Probably Günther Franke, Munich (acquired from the above in 1932, Cassirer).
Probably private collection, England (probably until 1961, Christie's).
Galerie Neumeister, Munich (acquired from the above in 1961).
Art dealer J.P. Schneider, Frankfurt am Main (stamped on the reverse).
Private collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1998).
EXHIBITION: Lesser Ury. Neue Bilder aus zwei Weltstädten London - Berlin u. a, Kunstkammer Martin Wasservogel, Berlin, November 1926, no. 72 (with illustration, plate XIII).
Lesser Ury, Gedenk-Ausstellung National-Galerie, 1931, no. 25 (with illustration).
Lesser Ury, Ausstellung anläßlich des 100. Geburtstages. Berlin, Bezirksamt Tiergarten von Berlin, Abt. Volksbildung, Amt für Kunst , 1961, cat. no. 10.
Lesser Ury, Sonderausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag. Düsseldorf, Galerie G. Paffrath, 1961, cat. no. 9.
LITERATURE: Inventory list of the Lesser Ury estate: No. 27: Titusbogen, signed 1890, 29 x 39 cm. SMB-ZA, Berlin, I NG 858, fol. 370.
Der künstlerische Nachlass von Lesser Ury, 129 Ölgemälde, 123 Pastelle, Paul Cassirer, Berlin, October 21, 1932, cat. no. 17, (with ill.).
Handwritten annotated copy of the aforementioned auction catalog, October 21, 1932, Paul Cassirer Archive & Walter Feilchenfeldt Archive, Zurich (https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.48864#0043).
Christie's, London, auction January 27, 1961, lot 141 (with illustration)).
1861 - 1931
Der Titusbogen in Rom. 1890.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower left. 29 x 39.5 cm (11.4 x 15.5 in). [EH].
• Significant provenance: Directly from the artist’s heirs.
• Rare testimony of Ury’s brief but artistically productive stay in Rome.
• In 1890, Lesser Ury traveled to Italy on a scholarship from the Berlin Academy of Arts.
• Lesser Ury made the diversity of diffuse light the subject of his painting.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (1931, estate number 27).
Probably Günther Franke, Munich (acquired from the above in 1932, Cassirer).
Probably private collection, England (probably until 1961, Christie's).
Galerie Neumeister, Munich (acquired from the above in 1961).
Art dealer J.P. Schneider, Frankfurt am Main (stamped on the reverse).
Private collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1998).
EXHIBITION: Lesser Ury. Neue Bilder aus zwei Weltstädten London - Berlin u. a, Kunstkammer Martin Wasservogel, Berlin, November 1926, no. 72 (with illustration, plate XIII).
Lesser Ury, Gedenk-Ausstellung National-Galerie, 1931, no. 25 (with illustration).
Lesser Ury, Ausstellung anläßlich des 100. Geburtstages. Berlin, Bezirksamt Tiergarten von Berlin, Abt. Volksbildung, Amt für Kunst , 1961, cat. no. 10.
Lesser Ury, Sonderausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag. Düsseldorf, Galerie G. Paffrath, 1961, cat. no. 9.
LITERATURE: Inventory list of the Lesser Ury estate: No. 27: Titusbogen, signed 1890, 29 x 39 cm. SMB-ZA, Berlin, I NG 858, fol. 370.
Der künstlerische Nachlass von Lesser Ury, 129 Ölgemälde, 123 Pastelle, Paul Cassirer, Berlin, October 21, 1932, cat. no. 17, (with ill.).
Handwritten annotated copy of the aforementioned auction catalog, October 21, 1932, Paul Cassirer Archive & Walter Feilchenfeldt Archive, Zurich (https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.48864#0043).
Christie's, London, auction January 27, 1961, lot 141 (with illustration)).
168
Lesser Ury
Der Titusbogen in Rom, 1890.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 25,000 / $ 29,000 Sold:
€ 29,670 / $ 34,417 (incl. surcharge)
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