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Painter, b. 1906 - d. 1996

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        • § MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN, 1906-1996)
          Nov. 12, 2024

          § MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN, 1906-1996)

          Est: £800 - £1,200

          § MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN, 1906-1996) MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN, 1906-1996) Still life dated '1942' (lower right), further signed 'M. Motesiczky' (canvas overlap, verso) oil on canvas 40.5 x 30.5 cm. (16 x 12 in.) Provenance Private Collection

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £100 - £150

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) STILL-LIFE OF FRUIT AND PAINTBRUSHES ON A TABLE charcoal and pencil on prepared canvas 81 x 61cm; 32 x 24in (unframed)

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £100 - £200

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) PORTRAIT OF A GRINNING MAN (i); STILL-LIFE WITH FRUIT (ii); STILL LIFE WITH MELON (iii) pencil on prepared canvas (i) 36 x 26cm; 14 1/4 x 10 1/4in (ii) 31 x 41cm; 12 1/4 x 16in (iii) 23 x 25cm; 9 x 10in all unframed (3)

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £100 - £150

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) STILL-LIFE OF FLOWERS WITH FRUIT IN A BOWL (i); STILL-LIFE OF FLOWERS (ii) both charcoal on prepared canvas each 45.5 x 35.5cm; 18 x 14in both unframed (2)

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £100 - £200

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) TWO Of THE ARTIST'S PALETTES both oil on panel each 61 x 39.5cm; 24 x 15 1/2in

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £300 - £500

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) HEAD OF A GIRL oil on canvas 46 x 35.5cm; 18 x 14in 52.5 x 42.5cm; 20 3/4 x 16 3/4in (framed) Painted in the 1940s. Literature Schlenker, no. 92

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £300 - £500

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) TWO CYCLAMEN IN A VASE oil on canvas 35.5 x 25.5cm; 14 x 10 1/4in unframed Painted in 1953 / 1967. The dating of the present work to 1953 reflects the number 53 that appears in the lower left corner of the composition. But Schlenker comments that a later date of 1967 has also been suggested. Literature Schlenker, no. 125

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £400 - £600

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) INDIAN MOTHER WITH CHILD oil on canvas 61 x 51cm; 24 x 20 1/4in 70 x 60cm; 27 1/2 x 23 1/2in (framed) Painted in 1945. Exhibited Munich, Städitsche Galerie, Erna Dinklage, Marie-Louise Motesiczky, 1954, no. 131(?) - as Indische Madonna Literature Eva Michel, Marie-Loiuise von Motesiczky 1906-1996, Eine österreicheische Schülerin von Max Beckmann (diploma thesis), University of Vienna, 2003, p. 79, pl. 124, illustrated Schlenker, no. 76

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £400 - £600

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) STILL-LIFE, FLOWERS oil and pastel on canvas 41 x 50.5cm; 16 x 20in unframed Painted in 1994, Literature Schlenker, no. 325

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £400 - £600

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) MIXED FLOWERS IN A VASE WITH CUTLERY oil on canvas 35.5 x 46cm; 14 x 18in unframed Painted in the 1940s, Schlenker comments: 'Motesiczky introduced several devices that invest this still-life with a sense of movement and force. The edge of the table jutting across the picture plane, the blade of the knife cut off by the edge of the canvas, the angle of the spoon half hidden behind the flowers, and the prongs of the fork which are not quite parallel. all contribute to the illusion of activity (Schlenker, p. 207). Literature Schlenker, no.100

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £400 - £600

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) BLONDE WOMAN oil on canvas 61 x 51cm; 24 x 21in 76 x 64cm; 30 x 25 1/2in (framed) Painted in 1960, Schlenker suggests that the sitter for the present work may well have been a Spanish girl called Lolita who lodged with Marie-Louise in exchange for sittings. Lolita was the model for at least two other oils (see Lolita I and Lolita III, Schlenker, nos. 180 & 182). Lolita III was purchased by Lord McAlpine in the early 1960s and Lolita I is now in the collection of the Leopold Museum, Vienna Literature Schlenker, no. 166

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £400 - £600

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) ORCHID WITH BOWL AND MIRROR oil on canvas 46 x 31cm; 18 x 12in unframed Painted in 1992, Schlenker comments that the present work combines pink orchids given to the artist by Stephan Connery with a wooden bowl from Sulawesi (Celebes), Indonesia containing an orange on a bed of grapes with a curved mirror in an intricately carved frame behind. The bowl and flowers in a vase appear in a photograph of the artist's studio taken in 1992 and now in the Moteisczky Archive, Tate Britain (Schlenker, p. 508, fig. 251). Literature Schlenker, no. 318

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £200 - £300

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) FEMALE PROFILE AND BIRD oil and charcaol on canvas 35.5 x 46cm; 14 x 18in unframed Painted in the 1960s. 'It has been suggested that this intimate little scene... depicts the mythical encounter of Leda and the Swan' (Schlenker, p. 391). Literature Schlenker, no. 228

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £300 - £500

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) HEAD OF A GIRL oil on canvas 51 x 55.5cm; 20 x 22in unframed Painted circa 1980, the unknown model also appears in Model with Dog painted around the same time (Schlenker, no. 282). A photograph of the sitter seated in the artist's studio is in the Motesiczky Archive, Tate Britain (Schlenker, p. 450, fig. 220). Literature Schlenker, no. 271

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £300 - £500

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) MAN WITH GREEN SCARF oil on canvas 61 x 50.5cm; 24 x 20in unframed Painted in 1975, the sitter for the present work was John Sandemeyer (d.1990), who lodged in the basement of the Motesiczky's house in Chesterford Gardens in the early 1970s. Motesiczky asked him to sit for her when he came back to visit. Photographs of Sandemeyer posing in the artist's studio (which Schlenker observes must have been used for the portrait as some bear paint smudges) and a related sketch of the sitter in pencil and white chalk are in the Motesiczky Archive, Tate Britain, London (Schlenker, p. 417, figs. 204 & 205). Literature Schlenker, no. 249

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £500 - £700

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) STILL-LIFE, HEATHER AND APPLE oil on canvas 38 x 53cm; 15 x 20 3/4in 52.5 x 67.5; 20 3/4 x 26 1/2in (framed) Painted in 1980, Schlenker notes that Motesiczky arranged the present still life on draining board in the old fashioned scullery next to the dining room at Chesterford Gardens: 'On the draining board's row of rough wooden planks two shallow earthenware dishes stand side by side. One is holding an apple. The other, displaying a bowl containing a bunch of multicoloured heather, has a greenish inside which echoes the colour of the fruit. Both objects have been placed next to the sink for good reasons: while the apple is washed to be eaten, the heather is watered to ensure its growth. The drop of water, escaping from the tap and shining brightly in the light, testifies to the completed tasks. A bee is hovering above the heather, about to indulge in its pollen.' (Schlenker, p. 447) Literature Jill Lloyd, The Undiscovered Expressionist, A Life of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, London, 2007, p. 219 Schlenker, no. 269

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £300 - £500

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) WOMAN IN PROFILE oil on canvas 46 x 32cm; 18 x 12.5in (unframed) Painted in the late 1950s, Schlenker thinks it most likely that the model is Mexican, as Marie-Louise visited Mexico in spring 1956 where she was inspired by Diego Rivera and his depiction of calla lilies, a flower that the sitter carries, its yellow pistil prominently glowing lower left (Schlenker, p. 300). There is an unfinished portrait on the reverse of the canvas. Schlenker no. 161

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £200 - £300

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) TWO BEARDED MEN BY A LAKE oil on canvas 50.5 x 71cm; 20 x 28in unstretched Literature Schlenker, no. 333

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £500 - £700

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) STILL-LIFE WITH RUDBECKIA oil, pastel and charcoal on canvas 56 x 45.5cm; 22 x 18in unframed Painted in the early 1990s. Literature Schlenker, no. 326

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £300 - £500

          ⊕ 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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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £500 - £700

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) STILL LIFE WITH DAHLIAS oil and charcoal on canvas 62 x 48cm; 24 1/2 x19in 69 x 55.5cm; 27 1/4 x 21 3/4 (framed) Painted in 1992. 'On a table in front of a window, partly obscured by a closed shutter and half-drawn curtains, a white vase, showing a running black dog, holds a colourful bunch of flowers which presumably come from the artist's garden. Red-white and orange-pink dahlia, yellow rudbeckia and white stock provide a bright, almost glowing contrast to the dark night sky beyond the window...' (Schlenker, p. 507). Literature Schlenker, no. 317

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £300 - £500

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) HEAD OF A SMILING WOMAN oil on canvas 50 x 35cm; 19 3/4 x 13 3/4in unstretched Painted in the 1940s. Literature Schlenker, no. 94

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £500 - £700

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) STILL-LIFE WITH YELLOW ROSES signed and dated Motesicky 1943 lower right oil on canvas 42 x 61.5cm; 16 1/2 x 24 1/4in 41 x 65.5cm; 16 x 25 3/4in (framed) A related charcoal study of the present work is in the Motesiczky Archive, Tate Britain (Schlenker, p. 162, fig. 66). Provenance with the Beaux Arts Gallery, London (early 1960s) Literature Schlenker, no. 62

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £300 - £500

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) MARGIT DÖRY oil on canvas 41 x 31cm; 16 x 12 1/4in unframed Painted in 1963, the sitter is Margit Baronin Döry de Jobbaháza (1896-1988) who had been married to Heinrich von Lieben, Henriette von Motesiczky's cousin. Margit lived in Vienna, where she was the proprietor of a tea room and wrote poetry. Motesiczky had painted Margit's son Nicolas Lytton in 1956, and when Margit visited Marie-Louise and her mother in 1963 she sat for the present work. Literature Schlenker, no. 188

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £300 - £500

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) STILL-LIFE, VASE OF FLOWERS AND WICKER CHAIRS oil and charcoal on canvas 35 x 45cm; 13 3/4 x 17 3/4in unstretched Painted in the 1980s, Schlenker comments that among the flowers in the present work are fuschia, pink roses and rudbeckia. Literature Schlenker, no. 304

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £300 - £500

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) STILL-LIFE WITH FLOWERS AND MEAT SAFE oil on canvas 30 x 45cm; 12 x 17 3/4in unframed Painted in the 1970s, Schlenker comments that the present still life 'is not easy to decipher', but observes that the item in the right background is a wire-mesh meat safe, identifiable by its golden knob on the top that survived in the artist's estate, and that 'the centre of the picture is occupied by a cream-coloured ceramic dish, topped by a decorative handle that seems to be positioned sideways.' (Schlenker p. 446) Literature Schlenker, no. 267

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £300 - £500

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG GIRL IN A BLUE DRESS oil on board 46 x 37cm; 18 x 14.5in (unframed) Painted in 1952, according to Schlenker the present work may have been painted whilst Marie-Louise was on holiday in the south of France (Schlenker p. 224). Schlenker no. 113

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £500 - £700

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) STILL-LIFE, APPLES AND FLOWERS IN BLUE VASE oil on canvas 51 x 38cm; 20 x 15in unframed Painted in 1993. Literature Schlenker, no. 321

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £300 - £500

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) FEMALE HEAD oil, charcoal and pastel on canvas 50.5 x 40.5cm; 20 x 16in (unframed) Painted circa 1994-95. Schlenker notes that it has been suggested that this portrait began as a likeness of Pia-Maria Kerman, friend of the artist and mother of Michael Kerman who was a lodger at 6 Chesterford Gardens, Hampstead, but that Marie-Louise subsequently re-worked the painting (Schlenker p. 517). Schlenker no. 328

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          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £300 - £500

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) WAITING AT THE AIRPORT oil on canvas 52 x 69.5cm; 20 1/2 x 27 1/4in unstretched Painted in the 1950s. Literature Schlenker, no. 164

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £200 - £300

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) THE ARTIST'S PALETTE oil on panel 47 x 30cm; 18 1/2 x 11 3/4in

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        • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £500 - £700

          MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) STILL-LIFE WITH FLOWERS AND OIL-LAMP oil and pastel on canvas 53 x 38cm; 21 x 15in unframed Painted in 1990-91. Literature Schlenker, no. 311 As Schlenker suggests, the vases of flowers, oil lamp and glimpses of the sun setting through trees combined with a cropped photograph of an unidentified person in the lower right of the canvas lends the present composition a distinct air of mystery. Schlenker notes that Motesiczky frequently incoporated photographs (or her own reflection in a mirror) in her compositions, thereby infusing them with a more personal touch and a further layer of meaning (Schlenker, p. 482).

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        • ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Oct. 02, 2024

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

          Est: £100 - £200

          ⊕ MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) Property from the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust (lots 12-44) Introduction Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906-1996) grew up in Vienna, but when Austria was annexed by Germany in 1938 she and her mother fled via Holland to England where she lived and painted until she died in her ninetieth year. A seminal influence on her work was Max Beckmann (1884-1950) whom she met in 1920. She recalled: ‘A winged creature from Mars could not have made a greater impact on me’ and they remained in regular contact until the end of his life. Beckmann visited her in Paris, she attended his master classes in Frankfurt 1927-28 and they stayed in contact as far as possible during his exile in Holland from 1937-47, travelling to visit him and his wife ‘Quappi’ before they left for the United States. Marie-Louise had been born into a cultured Jewish banking dynasty. Her maternal grandfather, Leopold von Lieben, was President of the Stock Exchange in Vienna, she counted the Todescos, and Ephrussis among her family circle, and her grandmother Anna was one of Freud’s early patients. Over time the family was stricken by tragedy and financial and political turmoil. Marie-Louise’s father died in a hunting accident in 1909, her mother’s income was reduced during the post First World War by high taxation and the failure of the family bank in 1932, and the Anschluss on 13 March 1938 impelled her to leave Vienna immediately with her mother. Her brother Karl did not do so, mistakenly thinking he could continue his studies and look after the family property. He was arrested in October 1942 for aiding Jewish refugees and deported to Auschwitz, dying of typhus on 25 June 1943. In London Marie-Louise reconnected with Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), a family friend from Vienna now similarly in exile. Kokoschka arranged for her work to be exhibited in London, including a show at the Czechoslovak Institute in 1944. It was in Britain that she found her own ‘voice’ as an artist, living in Amersham during the war years, then a rented flat in West Hampstead and finally a large house on Chesterford Gardens in Hampstead. Another figure central to her life for nearly thirty years was the Nobel prize-winning writer Elias Canetti (1905-94), who is commemorated on the plaque dedicated to the two of them at the house in Chesterford Gardens. But starting afresh in Britain proved challenging for Marie-Louise, and it was not until 1960 that she had a second solo show at the Beaux Arts Gallery. In contrast, on the Continent her work was exhibited in Amsterdam and The Hague in 1952, a canvas being purchased by the Stedelijk Museum; she showed in Munich (1954) and Düsseldorf (1955), and in the 1960s she enjoyed further shows in both Austria and Germany. Then, in 1985, her work was exhibited again in London at the Goethe-Institut. The catalogue included contributions by Tate curator Richard Calvocoressi, Gunther Busch, former director of the Kunsthalle in Bremen, and the renowned cultural historian and fellow émigré Sir Ernst Gombrich. The exhibition re-ignited interest in her work, and in the years that followed her work was shown across Europe. A centenary exhibition travelled from Britain to Germany and Austria in 2006-7, her biography written by Jill Lloyd was published in 2007, followed in 2009 by a catalogue raisonné compiled by Ines Schlenker. In 2019 the ‘Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Archive Gallery’ was inaugurated at Tate Britain where the archive of her papers, photographs and the bulk of her drawings and sketchbooks are held and fully catalogued online. Her work is now in the collections of national, regional, local and university museums in Britain, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Netherlands and the United States. A major self-portrait of 1959 is on display at the National Portrait Gallery in London, following its reopening in June 2023. Literature Reference: the full reference for Schlenker, abbreviated in lots 12-43, is: Ines Schlenker, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, London, 2009. The Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust, is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (no. 7572024) and a registered charity (no. 1140890): www.motesiczky.org. The copyright for Marie-Louise von Motesiczky’s paintings, drawings and correspondence or other written work originating from her, her mother Henriette and brother Karl, lies with the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust. MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) SELF-PORTRAIT watercolour and pastel on paper 11 x 16cm; 4 1/4 x 6 1/4in 31 x 39cm; 12 1/4 x 15 1/4in (framed)

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        • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY* (Vienna 1906 - 1996 London)
          May. 28, 2024

          MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY* (Vienna 1906 - 1996 London)

          Est: €1,600 - €3,000

          MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY* (Vienna 1906 - 1996 London) Still live with three apple oil/canvas, 36 x 45,5 cm catalogue raisonné Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Schlenker, USA 2009, n. 303 ESTIMATE °€ 1600 - 3000 STARTING PRICE °€ 1600 Austrian painter of the 20th century. Representative of Expressionism, belongs to the forgotten generation. Her father came from the Hungarian nobility, her mother from a Jewish Viennese banking family. She was the sister of the inventor of the radio tube Robert Hermann von Lieben, her grandmother Anna von Lieben was one of the first patients of Sigmund Freund. Her brother Karl Motesiczky, psychoanalyst and resistance fighter, died in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943. She attended the private art school of the Czech artist Carola Machotka in Den Haar from 1922. Studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main with Max Beckmann, was her mentor and lifelong friend. Held high regard for her and saw her as a successor to Paula Modersohn-Becker. After the Anschluss, she fled to Amersham via the Netherlands and London in 1938, and lived in London from 1945. Deepened her acquaintance with Oskar Kokoschka. Became a friend and lover of Elias Canetti. Took many trips, including to Mexico, where she met her childhood friend Wolfgang Paalen shortly before his death. Received late recognition in 1985 through an exhibition at the London Goethe Institute on the initiative of Hilde Spiel, another exhibition in 1994 at the Austrian Gallery Belvedere. Created unadorned portraits of her mother, haunting self-portraits, and still lifes rich in symbolism. Influence of teacher Max Beckmann also visible in the enigmatic selection and arrangement of objects. "If you only paint one good picture while you're alive, it was worth your whole life." Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, at the age of 16, is convinced of that. Three years earlier, she finished her school career in order to fulfill this dream. Since Motesiczky comes from a wealthy, aristocratic family, nothing stands in the way of her wish and she attends a private painting school. She continued her education with courses at the Frankfurt Städelschule, the Vienna School of Applied Arts and the Paris Académie de la Grande Chaumiere. Max Beckmann, whom she met as a family friend at the age of 14, was particularly formative for the young painter at this time. She admires him greatly and describes herself that a "winged creature from Mars could not have made a greater impression on her." At Beckmann's invitation, the young painter went to the Städelschule in Frankfurt once again in 1927 as his student. In the years that followed she lived and worked in Vienna. In 1938 she emigrated to Amsterdam with her mother, and a little later to England. At that time she met the writer Elias Canetti, with whom she entered into a relationship that lasted more than 50 years. The published correspondence between the two bears witness to an intense artistic friendship, but also to the tragic love affair with the egomaniac and womanizer Canetti. The letters show that the talented artist admires the poet but becomes dependent on him. Canetti is married, has several mistresses, uses and humiliates them, only as a painter does he spur her on and encourage her. The "Still Life with Cigarettes" shown here shows nothing of this supposedly "weak side" of the artist. It was created in 1928 when she was studying with Beckmann and clearly shows the influence of her teacher. Motesiczky draws on individual elements such as can be seen, for example, in Beckmann's "Still Life with a Burning Candle" from 1921. She breaks with the classic perspective and plays with the alternation of surface and space. The improvised tabletop on the light, blackberry-colored fabric serves as a stable base for the lavishly filled jug. Next to the vase of flowers are four cigarettes, which protrude slightly over the edge of the tabletop and face the viewer directly. The colors of the blackberry and cream-colored cloths are skilfully repeated in the blossoms. Although the flowers are not detailed, dahlias and Sweet-Williams can be recognized by their distinctive colors and shapes. How many of her still lifes the picture seems to only show a partial view and the background is only hinted at. The cigarettes, which are placed next to the flowers as an important element in the picture, are exciting. In the 1920s and 1930s they stand for a new attitude towards life in women, which is characterized by freedom, independence and a new, more openly lived female eroticism. The financially independent painter hardly took part in the art world throughout her life, her work was created in secret and was only discovered late. In 1966 her work was presented for the first time in her home country, and in 1994 a solo exhibition took place in the Austrian Gallery Belvedere. On the occasion of her 100th birthday in 2006, the Wien Museum showed this painting together with around 70 other oil paintings by the painter in cooperation with the London Motesiczky Trust. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographs 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.

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        • • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Mar. 20, 2024

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

          Est: £500 - £700

          • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) TWO BEARDED MEN BY A LAKE oil on canvas 50.5 x 71cm; 20 x 28in (unframed) Schlenker no. 333

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          Mar. 20, 2024

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

          Est: £500 - £700

          • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS oil on canvas 36 x 40.5cm; 14 1/4 x 16in (unframed) Painted in the mid-1990s, Schlenker notes that this is one of Marie-Louise's most abstract works in which she depicts an expansive bunch of sweet peas and gypsophila, probably from her garden. Schlenker no. 327

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          Mar. 20, 2024

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

          Est: £700 - £900

          • 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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          Mar. 20, 2024

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

          Est: £800 - £1,200

          • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) STILL-LIFE WITH BOOKS, ROSES AND RECORDER oil on canvas 33 x 48cm; 13 x 19in (unframed) Painted in 1982. Literature Jill Lloyd, The Undiscovered Expressionist, A Life of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, London, 2007, p. 219 (titled Still life with books, roses and flute) Schlenker no. 275

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          Mar. 20, 2024

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

          Est: £800 - £1,200

          • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) WOMAN IN PROFILE oil on canvas 46 x 32cm; 18 x 12.5in (unframed) Painted in the late 1950s, Schlenker thinks it most likely that the model is Mexican, as Marie-Louise visited Mexico in spring 1956 where she was inspired by Diego Rivera and his depiction of calla lilies, a flower that the sitter carries, its yellow pistil prominently glowing lower left (Schlenker, p. 300). There is an unfinished portrait on the reverse of the canvas. Schlenker no. 161

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          Mar. 20, 2024

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

          Est: £800 - £1,200

          • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) BEACH SCENE oil on canvas 50.5 x 63.5cm; 20 x 25in 61 x 72cm; 24 x 28 1/2in (framed) Painted in the early 1970s, Schlenker notes that the subject was inspired by a holiday Marie-Louise took in Tunisia in 1973. A photograph from her trip of the present beach and rocks is in the Motesiczky Archive, Tate Britain (Schlenker, p. 415, fig. 200). Schlenker no. 247

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          Mar. 20, 2024

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          Est: £1,000 - £1,500

          • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) COW STRETCHING OVER HEDGE IN FIELD oil on canvas 40.5 x 51cm; 16 x 20in (unframed) Painted in the 1960s. As noted in lot 1, apart from domesticated pets it was rare for Marie-Louise to paint animals in nature, but in the present work she seems to have been attracted by the cow's innocent eye and the enthusiastic lick of its large pink tongue, an action she captures with typical wit and veracity. Schlenker no. 238

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          Mar. 20, 2024

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

          Est: £600 - £800

          • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) PORTRAIT OF A SMILING LADY oil on canvas 41 x 30.5cm; 16 x 12in (unframed) Painted in 1944. Schlenker no. 67

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        • • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996)
          Mar. 20, 2024

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

          Est: £600 - £800

          • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) APPLES AND GRAPES oil on canvas 36 x 45.5cm; 14 x 18in (unframed) Painted in the 1980s. Schlenker no. 303

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          Mar. 20, 2024

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

          Est: £800 - £1,200

          • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) FEMALE HEAD oil, charcoal and pastel on canvas 50.5 x 40.5cm; 20 x 16in (unframed) Painted circa 1994-95. Schlenker notes that it has been suggested that this portrait began as a likeness of Pia-Maria Kerman, friend of the artist and mother of Michael Kerman who was a lodger at 6 Chesterford Gardens, Hampstead, but that Marie-Louise subsequently re-worked the painting (Schlenker p. 517). Schlenker no. 328

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          Mar. 20, 2024

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          Est: £1,200 - £1,800

          • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) DAFFODILS AND NARCISSI signed and dated Motesiczky 1991 lower left oil and charcoal on canvas 51 x 76.5cm; 20 x 30in 63 x 91cm; 26 x 36in (framed) Painted in 1991, the brushes placed against the round vase on the right suggest that the present work was painted in the artist's studio at Chesterford Gardens, Hampstead. Exhibited Manchester, Manchester City Art Galleries, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Paintings 1925-1993, 1994, no. 33 (titled Still Life with Narcissi) Schlenker no. 312

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          Mar. 20, 2024

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

          Est: £800 - £1,200

          • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) ROSES IN THE WINDOW oil on canvas 50.5 x 36cm; 20 x 14in (unframed) Painted in 1994. Schlenker no. 324

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          Mar. 20, 2024

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

          Est: £700 - £900

          • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) FRUIT AND ROSE oil on canvas 50.5 x 35.5cm; 20 x 14in 63 x 48cm; 24 3/4 x 19in (framed) Painted in 1991, a photograph, probably taken by the artist, records the present composition: a single rose in a vase with fruit and flowers in a basket arranged on the draining board adjacent to the sink in the scullery at Chesterford Road, Hampstead (Schlenker p. 501). The photograph, together with the domed wire-mesh food cover which can be glimpsed behind the fruit basket, are now in the Motesiczky Archive in Tate Britain. Exhibited Manchester, Manchester City Art Galleries, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Paintings 1925-1993, 1994, no. 34 (titled Still Life with White Rose) Schlenker no. 314

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          Mar. 20, 2024

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

          Est: £700 - £900

          • MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN-BRITISH 1906-1996) DAHLIAS IN A VASE oil on canvas 40.5 x 35.5cm; 16 x 13 3/4in (unframed) Painted in 1991. Schlenker no. 313

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