Yellow Roses with Bisque Statuettes
Description:
Two statuettes on gilded bases either side of a vase filled with yellow roses, and standing on the edge of a commode, oil on canvas, 30” x 24.3/4”. Signed and dated lower right ‘A. Muller Ury 19(3)5’. (The date is indistinct.)
Location:
Private collection.
Provenance:
By family descent from H. O. Havemeyer (died 1965) to the late Mrs. Sophie Bigelow (Mrs Peter Quinn).
Henry O. Havemeyer Sr. wrote in a letter to Nadea Loftus dated May 26, 1960 (original in the editor’s possession) that he owned four rose paintings by Muller-Ury.
This was the only picture by Muller-Ury for which the Wildenstein Gallery retained a photograph in their archives.
