Rare work by Marie-Louise von Motesiczky draws admirers at Chiswick Auctions
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky (1906-96) was one of those artists who took little pleasure in selling their work. Indeed, Motesiczky’s obituary in The Independent described her “aristocratic disdain for the marketplace” and stated that “while she half welcomed exhibitions, they remained uncomfortable experiences… she never needed to sell her paintings, indeed she preferred to keep them around her.”
The Vienna-born painter left her home city immediately after the Anschluss with Germany in 1938, a…