Lancelot playing chess with the Devil
Restitution status: Dubiousness is still to be clarified
Categories: Drawings / Pen-and-ink drawings, Drawings / Further kinds of drawings
Object Data
Artist
Museum
Inventory Number
32517
Description
Pen-and-ink, sepia, c. 1935-39, inscription, reverse, bottom left: 'La partie d' échecs de Lancelot'
Height
31.3 cm
Width
27.2 cm
Motif
Further motifs
Period
20th Century
Provenance Data
Purchase from the Dorotheum after 1945
Provenance according to museum / collection
Acquired from the Dorotheum, Vienna, 533rd art auction, September 1956, lot 273
Art Restitution Advisory Board
The questionable nature of the provenance of the art or cultural object is being or has been examined by the museum/the collection/the Commission for Provenance Research. So far, the case has not been dealt with by the Art Restitution Advisory Board.
No recommendation has been issued yet.
Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport
No decision has been reached so far.
The art or cultural object is kept in the museum/in the collection.
Request Object
© Art restitution National Fund of the Republic Austria for Victims of National Socialism