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Lesser Ury

Am Klavier (At the piano)

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December 10, 01:26 PM GMT

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Description

Lesser Ury

1861 - 1931


Am Klavier (At the piano)

signed L. Ury and dated 88 (lower left)

oil on canvas

50.7 by 35.4 cm.

20 by 14 in.

Executed in 1888.


This work will be included in the forthcoming Lesser Ury catalogue raisonné being prepared by Dr. Sibylle Groß.

Collection Gabor Breg, Neu Isenburg

Axel Springer, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1979)

Acquired from the above in the late 90s by the present owner

Berlin, Landes-Ausstellungsgebäude, LXIII. Ausstellung der Königlichen Akademie der Künste, 15.5.-31.7.1892, no. 1311, p. 70

Berlin, Berliner Secession, Lesser Ury, Katalog der 42. Ausstellung der Berliner Secession, Januar until March 1922, no. 44, n.p.

Hamburg, BATIG-Haus, Ein Berliner Maler, Lesser Ury (1861-1931) poetischer Chronist der Großstadt, 14.11.1988-13.1.1989, no. 2, n.p., (titled: Interieur, 1888)

Berlin, Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum, Lesser Ury, Zauber des Lichts, 1995, no. 8, illustrated in colour, p.119 (titled: Interieur mit Frau am Klavier, 1888)

Exh Cat., Berlin, Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Lesser Ury, Zauber des Lichts, 1995, no. 8, p. 192

Friedrich von Boetticher, Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts, Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte, Vol. 2 (2nd half), Hofheim am Taunus 1901, no. 3, p. 910

Joachim Seyppel, Lesser Ury, Der Maler der alten City, Leben - Kunst - Wirkung, Berlin 1987, no. 613, p. 217