20th Mar, 2024 12:00

From the Studio: Works from 15 Artists' Estates

 
  Lot 26
 

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MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)

PORTRAIT OF 'AU PAIR' BARBARA
signed with initials and dated 92 upper right
oil on canvas
46 x 40.5cm; 20 x 14in
(unframed)

Painted in 1992, the sitter was Barbara Valentina Berner (b.1972). Originally from Vienna, she lodged with Marie-Louise for a few months in the early 1990s, helping with housework and keeping her company. A related pencil study of the sitter is in the Motesiczky Archive, Tate Britain (Schlenker, p. 506, fig. 250).

Schlenker no. 316

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PORTRAIT OF 'AU PAIR' BARBARA
signed with initials and dated 92 upper right
oil on canvas
46 x 40.5cm; 20 x 14in
(unframed)

Painted in 1992, the sitter was Barbara Valentina Berner (b.1972). Originally from Vienna, she lodged with Marie-Louise for a few months in the early 1990s, helping with housework and keeping her company. A related pencil study of the sitter is in the Motesiczky Archive, Tate Britain (Schlenker, p. 506, fig. 250).

Schlenker no. 316

Auction: From the Studio: Works from 15 Artists' Estates, 20th Mar, 2024

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