Property from the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust
MARIE-LOUISE VON MOTESICZKY (AUSTRIAN 1906-1996)
View from the window in Compayne Gardens I
signed Motesiczky (lower right)
oil on canvas
111 x 73.5 cm (43 3/4 x 28 7/8 in)
Painted in 1952
LITERATURE:
I. Schlenker, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky 1906-1996, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings, New York, 2009, p. 228, no. 116, illustrated
The artist lived in a flat at 14 Compayne Gardens, West Hampstead from 1948-1960. She shared the flat first with Georgette Lewinson, and then with Julia Altschulova. From 1951-1957 Elias Canetti kept a room there, where he often worked.
The present view is from the artist's sitting room on the second floor, looking out through the large bay window to the houses on the other side of the road (fig. 1). The orange glow of the sky and lit windows suggest that the time is early evening. Displayed on a French commode in the foreground is the curious form of a stuffed pheasant and a vase of animated, albeit drooping white tulips.
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