Gabriele Fekete ca.1910

JQAW# P_1910_142
Oil on canvas 122 x 100 cm (original reduced in size on top and bottom)
Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams (on the canvas folded at back of painting)
Unknown private collection.
Picture: courtesy Auktionshaus Schuler AG Zürich, September 2024

Gabriele (Gabriella Ella) Fekete, neé Schindler-Barnay 28.10.1879 Vienna to 14.10.1950 Zurich (CH), co-established Gabriele and Mor Fekete Foundation (supporting inter alia the jewish home for aged people in Zurich).

Racially persecuted during the Nazi era the Fekete couple survived in exile in Argentina as of 1941 but returned to Europe after the war.

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The sitter and her legal heirs Vienna and Zurich.
2024 Auktionshaus Schuler Zürich auction 18.9.2024 Lot 3144.
Unknown private collection.