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Sketch for 'View of Vienna'
Maker
(artist)
1901-1965
1901-1965
Title
Sketch for 'View of Vienna'
Date of Production
1948
Medium
black ink, watercolour and white bodycolour on wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 38.6 cm
Width: 56.3 cm
Width: 56.3 cm
Accession Number
D.1978.PG.294
Mode of Acquisition
Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
© Reserved
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
purchased from the artist by Count Antoine Seilern, Vienna then London (1901-1978), 1949 (£256, along with D.1978.PG.293); Princes Gate Bequest 1978
Exhibition History
Gerhard Frankl : Restless, Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, 18/11/2015-03/04/2016
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. 294
pl. CXXVI
dated 1948
no. 294
pl. CXXVI
dated 1948
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Collector's mark: none.
Stamp: Mount (Seilern’s), Verso of back cover: upper right, stamped in blue: circle with double border, inside of which reads “Zentralstelle für Denkmalschutz im Bundesmin. f. Unterricht”. [an offset of the same stamp is on the recto of the front cover, upper left, probably from D.1978.PG.293 being laid on top of it shortly after being stamped].
Inscription: Mount (Seilern’s; removed but kept in the box with the drawing), Recto of back cover: lower centre, graphite: “Schattwald”. Mount, Verso of back cover: upper left, graphite: “Gerhart Frankl I / W.O / 9798 / [sum line] / 20 / Seilern”; lower left corner, graphite, abraded: “3” [?].
Collector's mark: none.
Stamp: Mount (Seilern’s), Verso of back cover: upper right, stamped in blue: circle with double border, inside of which reads “Zentralstelle für Denkmalschutz im Bundesmin. f. Unterricht”. [an offset of the same stamp is on the recto of the front cover, upper left, probably from D.1978.PG.293 being laid on top of it shortly after being stamped].
Inscription: Mount (Seilern’s; removed but kept in the box with the drawing), Recto of back cover: lower centre, graphite: “Schattwald”. Mount, Verso of back cover: upper left, graphite: “Gerhart Frankl I / W.O / 9798 / [sum line] / 20 / Seilern”; lower left corner, graphite, abraded: “3” [?].
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