LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Charcoal on thin card, laid down on firm card

Measurements:

20.47 in. (52.00 cm.) (height) by 14.02 in. (35.60 cm.) (width)

Markings:

with embossed stamp Prisma 5; Signed 'L; Ury' in charcoal lower left and dated and dedicated 'Herrn Wilhelm Kirschner/ z; in brownish ink pen lower right

Condition:

Framed under glass; The card evenly browned with traces of former drawing pins in the lower margin.

Literature:

Literature Adolph Donath Lesser Ury Seine Stellung in der modernen deutschen Malerei Berlin 1921 cf. p. 138 and p. 53 and 115 with illus. (other works by Lesser Ury in the possession of Wilhelm Kirschner Berlin)

Provenance:

Provenance Formerly Wilhelm Kirschner Collection Berlin; Siegbert Eick Kapstadt; Walter Katz Kapstadt (emigrated in the early 1930s) in family possession since; Private possession North Rhine-Westphalia