112286

VERSO

A Gentleman with a Moustache

Head and shoulders full face to the viewer, wearing a three piece suit

Oil on board, 75 x 56 cm (29 ½ x 22 in.)

Private Collection

This sitter has not yet been identified. The stamp for Franz Dury, München indicates that the board was purchased in Munich sometime before 1910, the date of the artist’s last visit to the city.

De László kept artist boards with rejected portraits for many years and regularly re-used them. This was the case for the study portrait of Princess Victoria [10303], daughter of King Edward VII [7705].  

Recto is a study portrait of Baroness Heinrich Schröder [6982] painted in 1923 at Dell Park, Surrey.

KF 2016