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Sketch for 'View of Vienna'

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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” [?].

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