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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 8, 2022 | Karl & Faber | Munich | Modern Art | Evening Sale | 705 | Estimates not disclosed | Quay on the Seine in the fog |
paintings
32 x 24 cm (12.6 x 9.45 in)
Oil on canvas, on cardboard
Signed, dated and inscribed “Paris” lower left
From the artist"s estate, verso with the round label of the estate inventory (with the very poorly legible stamp imprint “Inv. Nr./Mappe/NACHLASS/LESSER URY” and the handwritten chalk number “129”) as well as with the stamp imprint “NACHLASS/LESSER URY ”;
Galerie Paul Cassirer, Lesser Ury - estate auction, Berlin October 21, 1932, lot 118;
Galerie Franke, Berlin (1932);
Neumeister Gallery, Munich;
Private collection, Palatinate;
Lempertz, Cologne May 28, 2009, lot 222;
Private collection, Germany.
Neue Bilder aus zwei Weltstädten. Paris und Berlin, Kunstkammer Martin Wasservogel, Berlin 1928;
Lesser Ury - Gedenk-Ausstellung, Nationalgalerie, Berlin 1931, Kat.-Nr. 145 (“Seine-Quai”).
Lesser Ury
1861 Birnbaum/Posen - Berlin 1931
Quay on the Seine in the fog
Oil on canvas, on cardboard. 1928. Ca. 32 x 24 cm. Signed, dated and inscribed “Paris” lower left.
• Atmospheric late work from the last trip to Paris in 1928
• Unique depiction of the foggy light of the March sun
• Shown at the important solo exhibitions of Lesser Ury"s works in 1928 and 1931
• The dark trees on the banks of the Seine lead diagonally into the centre of the picture, where the long road trails off into on the horizon
• All contours seem to dissolve into splashes of blue, grey, yellow, orange and pink in the pale backlit scene
Fixed in frame. Not removed from frame for cataloguing.
With an expertise by Dr. Sibylle Groß, Berlin, dated 22.3.2009. This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of paintings, pastels and works in gouache and watercolour by Lesser Ury.