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Property from the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust, LondonMARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (1906-1996)Still-life, pink roses and brushesoil and charcoal on canvas, unframed 50.7 x 76.1 cmPainted c. 1948LITERATURE: I. Schlenker, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky 1906-1996, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, New York, 2009, p. 190 no. 84.In this relatively large-scale still life, according to Schlenker painted around 1948, Motesiczky presents the objects very close to the picture plane, lending them an almost monumental quality. In the centre of the composition are two large oval objects: a plate holding a delicate pink rose and a flask decorated with an orange bird. This central arrangement is framed by two groups of tall brushes in glass containers, the left one so close to the viewer that only the tops are visible. Lush pink roses are scattered around the composition, with two more blue flowers providing a colourful highlight on the left-hand side. Selected Works from the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust Motesiczky’s expressive and very painterly style had been formed before the Second World War, in large part influenced and encouraged by Max Beckmann. On first being introduced to Beckmann in 1920 she recalled: ‘A winged creature from Mars could not have made a greater impact on me’. Once in Britain it was Oskar Kokoschka, a family friend from Vienna now similarly exiled, who helped champion her work. Thereafter, and very much on a personal level, it was the writer Elias Canetti (1905-1994) a fellow émigré who exercised a major influence over her artistic output. Marie-Louise von Motesiczky grew up with her parents and her brother Karl in central Vienna. Her mother Henriette came from an illustrious Viennese Jewish banking dynasty. Her maternal grandfather, Leopold von Lieben, was President of the Stock Exchange; her grandmother, Anna, one of Freud’s early patients. She counted the Todescos, and Ephrussis among her family circle, and she, her mother and her brother Karl spent their summers at Villa Todesco in Hinterbrühl, south west of the capital. But over time family tragedy, financial difficulties and the rise of Nazi Germany took their toll. Marie-Louise’s father died at the end of 1909 and after the First World War her mother’s considerable inheritance gradually diminished through high taxation, poor investments, and the financial crash of 1929. Then, with the rise of the Third Reich and the Anschluss in March 1938, when Austria was annexed by Germany, she and her mother fled Vienna for the Netherlands before emigrating to England in 1939. Further distress followed when her brother Karl, who had remained in Austria, was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, dying of typhus there on 25 June 1943. On Motesiczky’s arrival in London Kokoschka ensured her inclusion in a series of group exhibitions, and assisted her in the staging of a solo exhibition at the Czechoslovak Institute in the autumn of 1944. Further group shows followed, and in 1960 she had a second solo exhibition at the influential Beaux Arts Gallery off Bond Street. On the Continent she received acclaim for her work in exhibitions in Amsterdam and The Hague in 1952, one of her canvases being purchased by the Stedelijk Museum. The same decade she exhibited in Munich and Düsseldorf, and in the 1960s was the subject of shows in Germany and Austria, including a one-person exhibition at the Wiener Secession in 1966. In 1985, a full twenty-five years after her work had been shown at the Beaux Arts Gallery, she was the subject of another solo exhibition in London, at the Goethe-Institut, which was widely acclaimed in the press. In 1994 a major retrospective of her work was held in Vienna at the Österreichische Galerie, Oberes Belvedere and in Manchester at the City Art Gallery. In 2006-07 her work was celebrated in a centenary exhibition at Tate Liverpool, travelling to Frankfurt, Vienna, Passau and Southampton City Art Gallery. Also in 2007 Jill Lloyd’s biography of Marie-Louise appeared: The Undiscovered Expressionist. A Life of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, followed in 2009 by the catalogue raisonné of her paintings by Ines Schlenker itemising over 350 works. Most recently in 2019-20, Tate Britain held an exhibition devoted to her to inaugurate the gallery named in perpetuity as the ‘Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Archive Gallery’ for all future displays of Tate’s archive holdings in general. The work of Marie-Louise von Motesiczky held in public collections Institutions in the UK holding works by the artist include: the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, the British Museum, Burgh House, Hampstead, Freud Museum, Garden Museum, National Portrait Gallery and Tate in London (which also holds her archive); the Amersham Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, Manchester Art Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh and the Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow. Elsewhere her work is in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; the Stedelijk, Amsterdam; the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam; the Städel Museum, Frankfurt; the German Literary Archive in Marbach; the Albertina, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, the Leopold Museum and the Museum Wien in Vienna; the Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz and the Stanley Museum, University of Iowa, USA. Please find a link to the Catalogue Raisonné for Marie-Louise von Motesiczky: https://www.motesiczky.org/publications/ Marie-Louise von Motesiczky 1906-1996. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings by Ines Schlenker, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2009. The Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust 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.
NO RESERVE Britain.- Cary (John) Cary's New Map of England and Wales with Part of Scotland, engraved title, hand-coloured general map and 76 sheets (numbered 1-81), mostly engraved maps hand-coloured in outline but including dedication, key and scale as part of sheets, no sheets numbered 62 or 80, [?]as issued, bound with index and list of subscribers, occasional spotting or browning, minor offsetting, bookplate to pastedown, hinge reinforced and cracked, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked, joints split, 4to, 1794; together with 3 parts only (of 4) of Lewis's large folding map of England & Wales, and 5 other folding maps, including Faden's 'Topographical Map of Hartford-Shire', a folding Railway Map of the West of England, James Wyld's 1838 'A New Map of Great Britain Particularly Shewing the Inland Navigation by the Canals, and Principal Rivers', Bowles' New Pocket Map of the Land of Canaan, and another, 19th century (9)
Doctor Doom, Marvel: Bowen Designs boxed Limited Edition 7 ½ inch painted statue (1746/4000) small scale version sculpted by Carl Surgess based on an original sculpture by Randy Bowen; together with, Marvel Comics boxed Incredible Hulk 3D Mug. (2) Condition Report: some signs of wear to the Incredible Hulk box, otherwise overall good conditions.
Marvel Heroes: Captain America and Spider-Man - a pair of slipcased first edition hardback books, Selected and introduced by Roy Thomas (former Marvel Editor-in Chief) comprises: Captain America, celebrates the 80th anniversary of the super-hero, stories by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Jim Steranko, with a loosely inserted scale replica issue of Captain America comic No.1, March 1941, publishers blue cloth over pictorial paper boards with artwork designs by Michael Cho, within a blue cloth slipcase stamped with the super-heros iconic shield motif; Spider-Man, stories by Stan Lee,Steve Dikto,Todd McFarlaneandBrian Michael Bendis, with a loosely inserted scale replica issue of The Amazing Spider-Man comic No. 1, March 1963, publishers red cloth over pictorial paper boards, artwork designs by Marcos Martin, within a red cloth slipcase stamped with Spider-Mans blue sigil, both published by The Folio Society, 2012. (2) Condition Report: near fine conditions.
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