Sale: 601 / Day Sale, Dec. 06. 2025 in Munich 
Lot 125000771
Lot 125000771
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125000771
Lesser Ury
Holländisches Dorf mit waschender Frau, 1913.
Pastel on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 10,000 - 12,000
$ 11,600 - 13,920
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Lesser Ury
1861 - 1931
Holländisches Dorf mit waschender Frau. 1913.
Pastel on cardboard.
Signed and dated in the lower left. 35.2 x 50 cm (13.8 x 19.6 in), the full sheet. [EH].
• Significant provenance: Directly from the artist’s heirs.
• Lesser Ury is an impressionist master of light.
• Dutch canal landscape in a lyrical, poetic mood.
• The vastness of the Dutch landscape inspired Ury to new expressions of nature.
• The exhibition “ Impressionismus in Deutschland. Max Liebermann und seine Zeit” (October 3, 2025–February 8, 2026) at the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, in cooperation with the Museum Barberini, Potsdam, features, among others, eight works by Lesser Ury..
PROVENANCE: Joseph Stieglitz Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Private collection (acquired in the 1950s from the above).
Private collection, New York (1990, acquired from the above: Sotheby’s, London).
EXHIBITION: Sotheby's, London, auction Oct. 17, 1990, lot 145 (with color illustration).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, auction 289/II, June 6/7, 1991, lot 904 (with illustration).
Grisebach, Berlin, auction 135, May 27, 2006, lot 118 (with color ill.).
1861 - 1931
Holländisches Dorf mit waschender Frau. 1913.
Pastel on cardboard.
Signed and dated in the lower left. 35.2 x 50 cm (13.8 x 19.6 in), the full sheet. [EH].
• Significant provenance: Directly from the artist’s heirs.
• Lesser Ury is an impressionist master of light.
• Dutch canal landscape in a lyrical, poetic mood.
• The vastness of the Dutch landscape inspired Ury to new expressions of nature.
• The exhibition “ Impressionismus in Deutschland. Max Liebermann und seine Zeit” (October 3, 2025–February 8, 2026) at the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, in cooperation with the Museum Barberini, Potsdam, features, among others, eight works by Lesser Ury..
PROVENANCE: Joseph Stieglitz Gallery, Tel Aviv.
Private collection (acquired in the 1950s from the above).
Private collection, New York (1990, acquired from the above: Sotheby’s, London).
EXHIBITION: Sotheby's, London, auction Oct. 17, 1990, lot 145 (with color illustration).
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, auction 289/II, June 6/7, 1991, lot 904 (with illustration).
Grisebach, Berlin, auction 135, May 27, 2006, lot 118 (with color ill.).
125000771
Lesser Ury
Holländisches Dorf mit waschender Frau, 1913.
Pastel on cardboard
Estimate:
€ 10,000 - 12,000
$ 11,600 - 13,920
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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