Lesser Ury
Birnbaum/Poznań 1861 – 1931 Berlin
”Buchenwald mit Bach”. 1890s
Pastel on cardboard. 50,8 × 34,5 cm. (20 × 13 ⅝ in.) Lower right by another hand later incised: L. Ury. On the reverse a round label, inscribed with the estate number in blue chalk: 544. On the right above this a label with the printed cat. no. of the auction catalogue: LESSER URY 160. There too a label with the typed certificate of authenticity by Dr. Karl Schwarz, director of the museum Tel-Aviv, dated 5 July 1943. Accompanied by a certificate by Dr. Sibylle Groß, Berlin, from 16.4.2024. The pastel will be included in the catalogue raisonné of paintings, pastels, gouaches and watercolours by Lesser Ury by Dr. Sibylle Groß, Berlin. [3148] Framed
ProvenanceEstate of the artist („Buchenwald Teich“) / Helcia Täubler, Berlin (acquired 1932 in the estate sale at Cassirer) / Ein Harod, Mishkan Le’Omanut, Museum of Art, inv. no. 38 / presumably Galerie Michael Hasenclever, Munich (acquired from Mishkan Le’Omanut, Museum of Art) / Galerie Pels-Leusden, Berlin (1981) / Private collection, Northern Germany (acquired 1981 from Galerie Pels-Leusden, thence by descent to the present owner)
EUR 12.000 – 15.000
USD 12,900 – 16,100
ExhibitionLesser Ury (1861-1931). Memorial exhibition commemorating the 100th anniversary of his birth, Tel Aviv, Tel-Aviv Museum, Helena Rubinstein Pavillon, 1961, cat.-no. 45 (Landscape) / Lesser Ury zum 50. Todestag. Gemälde, Pastelle, Zeichnungen und Graphik. Berlin, Galerie Pels-Leusden, 1981, cat. no. 17, ill. p. 16 („Abendstimmung am Grunewaldsee“)
Literature and IllustrationAuction catalogue: Der künstlerische Nachlaß von Lesser Ury, 129 Ölgemälde, 123 Pastelle. Berlin, Paul Cassirer, 21.10.1932, cat. no. 160 (there sold for 75 RM)
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