Robert Pudlich - Collection of Corbeau and Renard assembled by Gerd Sander Part II London Friday, May 16, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance


    Lempertz, 3 November 2001, lot 285

  • Catalogue Essay


    Johanna Ey started life as a baker, owning a bakery opposite the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts. She soon became an art collector by default as she began accepting paintings as payment for food. Within 6 years she had closed her bakery and opened an art gallery on the Hindenburg wall and was to become one of the most important art dealers in Germany during the 1920s. She became known as Mutter Ey (Mother Ey) for her nurturing support she provided to her artists, who included Max Ernst and Otto Dix. She was the main patron to Dix and was the subject of many of his paintings. She died in 1947 at the age of 83.

117

Lisbeth Ey

circa 1930
Gelatin silver print.
21.6 x 16.5 cm. (8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in).
Signed in ink, titled in pencil and ink on the verso.

Estimate
£700 - 900 

Collection of Corbeau and Renard assembled by Gerd Sander Part II

17 May 2008, 3pm
London