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Property of a Lady, Europe

Marlow Moss

White, Black, Blue and Red

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Lady, Europe

Marlow Moss

1889 - 1958


White, Black, Blue and Red

signed Marlow Moss. and dated 1944. (lower right)

oil on canvas and wood relief

81 by 64 cm. 32 by 25¼ in.

Executed in 1944.


We are grateful to Dr. Lucy Howarth and Florette Dijkstra for their kind assistance with the cataloguing for the present work.

Acquired directly from the Artist by Antoinette Hendrika Nijhoff-Wind (writer and wife of the poet Martinus Nijhoff), Biggekerke

Gimpel Hanover Galerie, Zurich, where acquired by Carl Laszlo, Basel, circa 1970s

Galleri Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm

Acquired from the above by the previous owner, 1983

Their sale, Sotheby's Amsterdam, 1 July 2009, lot 37, where acquired by the present owner

Florette Dijkstra, Marlow Moss: constructiviste + het reconstructieproject, 's-Hertogenbosch, 1994, pp. 31, 37, no. S28, illustrated (reconstruction of the work)

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Marlow Moss, March - April 1962, no. 16

Zurich, Galerie Gimpel & Hanover, Marlow Moss (1890-1958) Bilder, Konstructionen, Zeichnungen, December 1973 - January 1974, no. 12, illustrated in the exh. cat. p. 74

London, Gimpel Fils, Marlow Moss (1890-1958). Constructions, Drawings, Paintings, 15 April – 17 May 1975, no. 12, illustrated in the exh. cat. p. 74

Basel, Galerie Schreiner, Avant-garde der konstruktiven Kunst, 1978, pp. 130-133, illustrated in the exh. cat.