Mor Fekete ca.1910
JQAW# P_1910_141
Oil on canvas 122 x 100 cm (original reduced in size - canvas folded backwards on left side)
Signature: John Quincy Ɑdams
Unknown private collection.
Picture: courtesy Auktionshaus Schuler AG Zürich, September 2024
Mor (Moritz) Fekete (pre 1891 Schvarcz/Schwartz) 7.7.1864 Dicsőszentmárton (Hungary, today: Târnăveni Romania) to 20.9.1960 Baden near Vienna, industrialist (chemical and pharmaceutical products) and benefactor (jewish home for aged people Zürich).
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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Cross-references
Gabriele Fekete (wife)Exhibited
1911 Künstlerhaus Vienna (EL 55 1910/1911 #2578, there only listed as unnamed "portrait", insurance value 7000 Kronen, returned to K Fekete on 27.3.1911).
Literature
APH, catalog raisonné JQA 1995, 1995, p. 256, cat.#223, fig. 156 (there not identified)
Depicted in: Österr. Ill. Zeitung Kunstrevue, Heft 20, 12.2.1911, S. 496 ("gentleman portrait")
Provenance
The sitter and his legal heirs Vienna and Zurich.
2024 Auktionshaus Schuler Zürich auction 18.9.2024 Lot 3144.
Unknown private collection.