We would like to thank Dr. Sibylle Groß, Berlin, for her scholarly advice.


Condition Report: Fine, harmonious overall appearance. The ink slightly faded. The sheet edges partially somewhat unevenly cut, otherwise without losses. The sheet laid down on a sturdier paper; thus, the partially slightly thinned corners as well as the tears at the upper left corner and at the upper edge on the right (up to 1,5 cm) closed and stabilised. The paper slightly time stained, with pale light-stain along the edges. On the reverse, at corners minuscule rests of textile adhesive tape from former mounting. In the upper corners, mounted with Japan paper onto the support cardboard

Axel Springer, Berlin (at the latest from 1973-1996) / Private Collection, London/Israel (acquired in 1996 at Grisebach, Berlin) / Private Collection, Southern Germany (acquired in 1998 at Germann, Zurich)

Lesser Ury 1861–1931. Oils, Pastels, Gouaches, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints. New York, The Leo Baeck Institute in cooperation with The American Bank & Trust Company, in the Art Gallery of American Bank & Trust Company, 1973, cat. no. 52 (Girl at the Piano ("Harmonie“) / Lesser Ury und das Licht. Museum für Kunst und Technik des 19. Jahrhunderts, Baden-Baden, 2014, p. 29, ill. 

Auction 1149. Berlin, Rudolph Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, 5.10.1898, cat. 1149, no. 68, ill. (Harmonie, Interieur, Holz, 24 x 17 cm) / Auction 49: Lesser Ury. Sammlung T. und anderer Besitz. Berlin, Villa Grisebach Auktionen, 7.6.1996, cat. no. 200, ill. / Auktion: 19th and 20th Century Art. Tel Aviv, Sotheby's, 7.10.1996, cat. no. 8, ill. / Auktion: German and Austrian Art '97. London, Christies, 9.10.1997, cat. no. 48, ill. / Auktion 9801. Germann Auktionen, Zürich, 13./14.5.1998, cat. no. 88, ill. / Sabine Lata: Lesser Ury. Maler der Moderne. Berlin, BeBra Verlag, 2023, p. 44, ill.