LESSER URY (1861-1931) - photo 1

LESSER URY (1861-1931)

Lot 234
10.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 100 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1306214
Lot 234 | LESSER URY (1861-1931)
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
LESSER URY (1861-1931)
Waterloo Bridge bei Nebel, London
signed, dated and inscribed 'L. Ury London 1926' (lower left)
oil on canvas
19 ¾ x 27 5/8 in. (50.2 x 70.2 cm.)
Painted in London in 1926




Provenance

The artist's estate; sale, Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin, 21 October 1932, lot 107.
Dr. Hans Lener, Berlin & Tel Aviv, by whom acquired at the above sale, and until at least 1961.
Private collection, Israel & Great Britain, until 1989.
Anonymous sale, Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, 2 June 1989, lot 60.
Private collection, Bavaria, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Galerie Westphal, Berlin, until 1999.
Private collection, North Germany, by whom acquired from the above in 1999; sale, Grisebach, Berlin, 9 July 2020, lot 40.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Exhibited

Berlin, Kunst Kammer Martin Wasservogel, Lesser Ury, Neue Bilder aus zwei Weltstädten London-Berlin, November 1926, no. 55, p. 18 (titled 'Waterloo-Brücke bei Nebel').
Tel Aviv, Museum, Lesser Ury, Commemorative Exhibition, January 1937, no. 59 (titled 'Fog over the Themse').
Rishon LeTsiyon, Lesser Ury Restrospective, 1951, no. 18 (titled 'Fog over the Thames').
Tel Aviv, Museum, Helena Rubenstein Pavilion, Lesser Ury, Memorial Exhibition Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of His Birth, October - November 1961, no. 32 (titled ‘Fog over the Thamse’).



Further details

Dr Sibylle Groß has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Artist:Lesser Ury (1861 - 1931)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Art style:Impressionism
Genre:Cityscape
Place of origin:Western Europe, Germany, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings
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