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Portrait of the artist's wife

Maker

(artist)
1890-1967

Title

Portrait of the artist's wife

Date of Production

(circa) 1932

Medium

graphite, watercolour, white bodycolour on wove paper, with pinholes at all four corners, the lower edge folded under

Dimensions

Height: 65 cm
Width: 46.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.280

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

© DACS 2023

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

purchased from the artist by Count Antoine Seilern, Vienna then London (1901-1978), sometime between 1932-1935; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Paintings and drawings of Continental Schools other than Flemish and Italian at 56 Princes Gate, London SW7, London 1961; III
no. 280
pl. CXV
dated c. 1932

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Stamp: Mount (Seilern’s), Verso of back cover: centre, stamped in purple: “g”; lower left, stamped in blue: coat of arms, encircled by words: “Vom Bundesdenkmalamt zum Ausfuhr freigegeben”.

Inscription: Verso: numbers in graphite at upper centre, centre and lower centre in same hand: “23”, “18”, “13”; lower left corner, printed in black ink: “58”. Mount (Seilern’s), Recto of front cover: lower right, graphite: “Nr. 11”. Mount (Seilern’s), Recto of back cover: lower centre edge, graphite: “Sposalizio”.

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