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Lesser Ury

Birnbaum/Poznań 1861 – 1931 Berlin

„Nachtbeleuchtung“. 1889

Pastel on cardboard. 51,2 x 36 cm (20 ⅛ x 14 ⅛ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Lesser Ury. „Nachtbeleuchtung“. 1889.

Estimate:

EUR 80,000

 

- 120,000

USD 108,200

 

- 162,000

Sold for:

149,940 EUR (incl. premium)

auctions 164-167

Selected Works, Friday, 05.06.2009

Information

Pastel on cardboard. 51,2 x 36 cm (20 ⅛ x 14 ⅛ in.). Signed lower right: L. Ury. Catalogue raisonné: Accompanied by a certificate by Dr. Sibylle Groß, Berlin, dated April 2009. – The pastel will be included in the catalogue raisonné of paintings, pastels, gouaches and watercolours by Lesser Ury by Dr. Sibylle Groß, Berlin (in preparation). Slight skinning. Framed

Prof. Dr. Paul Friedrich Richter, Berlin / Marc J. Sandler / Margot Kayser, Bronxville, New York / Private collection, Southern Germany

Katalog der 42. Ausstellung: Lesser Ury. Berlin, Secession, 1922, cat. no. 52 / Lesser Ury, 1861 – 1931. Oils, Pastels, Gouaches, Watercolors, Drawings and Prints. New York, The Leo Baeck Institute and The Art Gallery of the American Bank & Trust Company, 1973, cat. no. 44 („City Lights“, 1889) / 40 Jahre Kunsthandlung Pels-Leusden, Ausgewählte Werke. Berlin, Galerie Pels-Leusden, 1990, full-page colour ill. p. 19 / Lesser Ury, Zauber des Lichts. Berlin, Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum, 1995/96, cat. no. 27, colour ill. p. 134

Adolph Donath: Lesser Ury, Seine Stellung in der modernen deutschen Malerei. Berlin, Verlag Max Perl, 1921, p. 138, ill. 10 / Alfred Werner: The Strange Tale of Lesser Ury. In: Leo Baeck Institute (London), Year Book XIX, 1974, p. 197-207, full-page ill. between p. 204 and 205 / Rolf Bothe: Stadtbilder zwischen Menzel und Liebermann [...]. In: exhibition catalogue: Stadtbilder. Berlin in der Malerei vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Berlin, Berlin Museum, 1987, p. 173-200, here p. 199, ann. 47, no. 16

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