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Fair Partner ✔
Spring Auction

28-05-2024 15:00
 
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ALBERT REUSS* (Vienna 1889 - 1975 Mousehole, Cornwall): Portrait of a man, 1920

ALBERT REUSS* (Vienna 1889 - 1975 Mousehole, Cornwall): Portrait of a man, 1920
ALBERT REUSS* (Vienna 1889 - 1975 Mousehole, Cornwall): Portrait of a man, 1920


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ALBERT REUSS* (Vienna 1889 - 1975 Mousehole, Cornwall): Portrait of a man, 1920
ALBERT REUSS* (Vienna 1889 - 1975 Mousehole, Cornwall)
Portrait of a man, 1920
pencil/paper, 28,8 x 19,6 cm
monogrammed AR., dated 13.4.1920

ESTIMATE °€ 100 - 200
STARTING PRICE °€ 100

Austrian painter and sculptor of the 20th century. Representative of exile art, belongs to the so-called lost or forgotten generation. Came from a Jewish family and initially worked as an actor. As a painter self-taught, exhibited from the 1920s in the Vienna Secession, the Hagenbund and the Würthle Gallery. From 1932 member of the Hagenbund. From the mid-1930s also sculptor, 1935 stay at Bedfordshire estate in England. 1938 emigration via London to Mousehole in Cornwall. His wife ran the gallery ARRA Gallery with artists such as Jack Pender or Alexander Mackenzie of the artist colony St. Ives. Lifelong friendship with gallery owner Jacques O'Hana. Early influences of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, then influences of expressive Carinthian painting. After emigration, development of style in the direction of New Objectivity and Surrealism. Landscapes with figures and individual objects in increasingly cool and restrained colors and monochrome surfaces. Colorfulness, mysteriousness and the static, frontal posture of the female torso comparable to works by Paul Delvaux. Composition and mood, calm, melancholy and contemplation comparable similar in the works of Josef Floch.

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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