Sándor (Alexander) Bortnyik Lot n° 148

Sándor (Alexander) Bortnyik Landscape with houses and a horse 1918 Gouache and brush and India ink on chamois-colored, slightly ribbed paper. 20 x 28.6 cm. Framed under glass. Signed and dated 'Bortnyik 1918' in pencil lower right and inscribed 'Bortnyik Sándor Landschaft mit Häusern und Pferd Farbskizze zu einem Farbholzschnitt' in various pens in Hungarian on the reverse. - Color freshly preserved. The paper somewhat browned in the mat opening and with slight marginal defects. Provenance Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne; private collection, Berlin; Lempertz, Cologne, Modern Art auction, June 4, 2002, lot 46; private collection, Bavaria