Sale: 601 / Day Sale, Dec. 06. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125000770
Lot 125000770
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125000770
Lesser Ury
Kuppel der Frauenkirche in Dresden, Ca. 1890/1900.
Pastel on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 8,000 - 12,000
$ 9,280 - 13,920
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Lesser Ury
1861 - 1931
Kuppel der Frauenkirche in Dresden. Ca. 1890/1900.
Pastel on cardboard.
With the estate stamp on the reverse (somewhat faded). Inscribed with the inventory number “174” on a label on the reverse and with a label reading “LESSER URY 223.”. 48 x 35.5 cm (18.8 x 13.9 in).
• Significant provenance: Directly from the artist’s heirs
• Depictions of Dresden are extremely rare in his oeuvre
• Lesser Ury shows the play of sunlight on the rooftops in his characteristic style
• In this pastel, he combines light and color to create a calm, sensitive mood.
The pastel will be included in the catalogue raisonné of Lesser Ury's paintings, pastels, gouaches, and watercolors currently in preparation by Dr. Sibylle Groß, Berlin.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (1931, estate number 174, with the label on the reverse).
Kurt and Adalbert Ury, Berlin (inheroited from the above estate on January 31, 1933).
Private collection, USA (inherited from the above).
LITERATURE: Inventory list of Lesser Ury's estate: No. 174: Dresden Frauenkirche, pastel, 48 x 35 cm. SMB-ZA, Berlin, I NG 858, fol. 372.
Der künstlerische Nachlass von Lesser Ury. Exhibition and auction, Paul Cassirer, Berlin, October 13-15 and 21, 1932, auction October 21, 1932, auctioneer Paul Cassirer, cat. no. 223 (unsold).
Handwritten annotated copy of the aforementioned auction catalog, October 21, 1932, Paul Cassirer Archive & Walter Feilchenfeldt Archive, Zurich (https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.48864#0043).
Villa Grisebach, Berlin, Auction 134, May 26, 2006, no. 14 (color illu.).
1861 - 1931
Kuppel der Frauenkirche in Dresden. Ca. 1890/1900.
Pastel on cardboard.
With the estate stamp on the reverse (somewhat faded). Inscribed with the inventory number “174” on a label on the reverse and with a label reading “LESSER URY 223.”. 48 x 35.5 cm (18.8 x 13.9 in).
• Significant provenance: Directly from the artist’s heirs
• Depictions of Dresden are extremely rare in his oeuvre
• Lesser Ury shows the play of sunlight on the rooftops in his characteristic style
• In this pastel, he combines light and color to create a calm, sensitive mood.
The pastel will be included in the catalogue raisonné of Lesser Ury's paintings, pastels, gouaches, and watercolors currently in preparation by Dr. Sibylle Groß, Berlin.
PROVENANCE: Artist's estate (1931, estate number 174, with the label on the reverse).
Kurt and Adalbert Ury, Berlin (inheroited from the above estate on January 31, 1933).
Private collection, USA (inherited from the above).
LITERATURE: Inventory list of Lesser Ury's estate: No. 174: Dresden Frauenkirche, pastel, 48 x 35 cm. SMB-ZA, Berlin, I NG 858, fol. 372.
Der künstlerische Nachlass von Lesser Ury. Exhibition and auction, Paul Cassirer, Berlin, October 13-15 and 21, 1932, auction October 21, 1932, auctioneer Paul Cassirer, cat. no. 223 (unsold).
Handwritten annotated copy of the aforementioned auction catalog, October 21, 1932, Paul Cassirer Archive & Walter Feilchenfeldt Archive, Zurich (https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.48864#0043).
Villa Grisebach, Berlin, Auction 134, May 26, 2006, no. 14 (color illu.).
125000770
Lesser Ury
Kuppel der Frauenkirche in Dresden, Ca. 1890/1900.
Pastel on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 8,000 - 12,000
$ 9,280 - 13,920
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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