ID 1388282
Lot 17 | FRANCISZKA THEMERSON (1907-1988)
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
Eleven Persons and One Donkey Moving Forwards
signed and dated ‘Themerson 47’ (upper right)
oil on canvas
27 x 32 ¾ in. (68.6 x 83.2 cm.)
Painted in 1947.
Provenance
The artist, and by descent to the present owner.
Exhibited
London, Drian Galleries, A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Franciszka Themerson, September - October 1963, no. 6.
London, Barbican Art Gallery, Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945 - 1965, March - June 2022, pp. 4, 284, 337, exhibition not numbered, illustrated.
Nuremberg, Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Horizons: Histories and Futures of Migration, March - September 2023, pp. 158-9, 305, no. 34, fig. 69.
| Art style: | Modern art |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Art style: | Modern art |
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| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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