20th Mar, 2024 12:00
From the Studio: Works from 15 Artists' Estates
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⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
ORCHID AND CLAY FIGURE
signed with initials and dated 67 lower left
oil on canvas
25 x 30.5cm; 10 x 12in
31 x 36.5cm; 12 1/4 x 14 1/2in (framed)
Painted in 1967. According to Schlenker, Marie-Louise probably acquired the small clay figure in indigenous dress on her trip to Mexico in 1956, displaying it thereafter on the mantlepiece in the living room at Chesterford Gardens, Hampstead (Schlenker p. 367).
Exhibited
Munich, Galerie Günther Frank, Marie-Louise Motesiczky, 1967, no. 59 (ex-catalogue)
Schlenker no. 212
Sold for £350
ORCHID AND CLAY FIGURE
signed with initials and dated 67 lower left
oil on canvas
25 x 30.5cm; 10 x 12in
31 x 36.5cm; 12 1/4 x 14 1/2in (framed)
Painted in 1967. According to Schlenker, Marie-Louise probably acquired the small clay figure in indigenous dress on her trip to Mexico in 1956, displaying it thereafter on the mantlepiece in the living room at Chesterford Gardens, Hampstead (Schlenker p. 367).
Exhibited
Munich, Galerie Günther Frank, Marie-Louise Motesiczky, 1967, no. 59 (ex-catalogue)
Schlenker no. 212
Auction: From the Studio: Works from 15 Artists' Estates, 20th Mar, 2024
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