Hedwig Esther Pillitz Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1896 - d. 1987

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    • Hedwig Pillitz (British, 1896 - 1987), Woman in Black
      Oct. 23, 2024

      Hedwig Pillitz (British, 1896 - 1987), Woman in Black

      Est: £400 - £600

      Hedwig Pillitz (British, 1896 - 1987) Woman in Black Oil on canvas Signed lower right, 'Pillitz / 32' Dimensions: 23 in. (H) x 17.5 in. (W)

      Sloane Street Auctions
    • • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Mar. 20, 2024

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £200 - £300

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF A SEATED MAN signed PiLLiTZ lower right oil on canvas 89 x 71cm; 35 x 28in (unframed)

      Olympia Auctions
    • • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Mar. 20, 2024

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £250 - £350

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF A LADY IN A YELLOW DRESS oil on canvas 82 x 59cm; 32 1/4 x 23 1/4in (unframed)

      Olympia Auctions
    • • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Mar. 20, 2024

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £200 - £300

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF PADDY MACLEAN oil on canvas 69.5 x 53.5cm; 27 1/4 x 21in (unframed)

      Olympia Auctions
    • • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Mar. 20, 2024

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £150 - £250

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF ELIZABETH WALLACE signed Pillitz lower right oil on canvas 72.5 x 57cm; 28 1/2 x 22 1/2in (unframed)

      Olympia Auctions
    • • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Mar. 20, 2024

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £150 - £200

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) A STUDY OF DAISIES AND DELPHINIUMS signed PilliTZ lower right oil on canvas 63 x 76cm; 24 3/4 x 30in (unframed)

      Olympia Auctions
    • • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Mar. 20, 2024

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £200 - £300

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF A LADY WEARING A RED SHAWL oil on canvas 81 x 58cm; 31 3/4 x 22 3/4in (unframed)

      Olympia Auctions
    • • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Mar. 20, 2024

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £200 - £300

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN WEARING A FLORAL DRESS signed PiLLiTZ lower right oil on canvas 50.5 x 40cm; 19 3/4 x 15 3/4in (unframed)

      Olympia Auctions
    • • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Mar. 20, 2024

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £300 - £500

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF BARBARA COMYNS oil on canvas 82.5 x 65.5cm; 32 1/2 x 25 3/4in (unframed) The painter and writer Barbara Comyns (1907-1992) was born in Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire and attended Heatherley School of Fine Art in London. She exhibited alongside her first husband, John Pemberton, with the London Group in 1934 and counted Augustus John and Dylan Thomas among her aquaintances. After the breakdown of her first marriage and subsequent relationship with Arthur Price, Comyns became a cook at a country house in Hertfordshire and began to write a series of vignettes about her childhood. She returned to London with her two children in 1942 and married MI6 agent Richard Strettell Comyns Carr, whose boss was Kim Philby and colleague was Grahame Greene. Greene encouraged Comyns' writing, but due to his association with Philby, Comyns Carr was obliged to quit MI6, and the couple moved to Spain. Comyns subsequently published a string of very successful novels, including Sisters by the River (1947), Our Spoons Came from Woolworths (1950), Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead (1954) and The House of Dolls (1989).

      Olympia Auctions
    • • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Mar. 20, 2024

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £200 - £300

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN IN A BLACK DRESS signed and dated PiLLiTZ 32 lower right oil on canvas 58.5 x 44.5cm; 23 x 17 1/2in (unframed)

      Olympia Auctions
    • • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Mar. 20, 2024

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £250 - £350

      • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF JOAN HOOD signed PiLLiTZ lower right, inscribed JOAN HOOD 29, ABERCORN PLACE, LONDON, N.W.8 BY HEDWIG E PILLITZ on the canvas overlap on the top edge on the reverse; signed and inscribed with the artist's address H.E PiLLiTZ 80 Canfield Gardens NW6 on the stretcher oil on canvas 77 x 64cm; 30 x 25in (unframed)

      Olympia Auctions
    • • HEDWIG PILLTZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Mar. 20, 2024

      • HEDWIG PILLTZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £200 - £300

      • HEDWIG PILLTZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) Hedwig Pillitz (lots 72-82) Introduction We know frustratingly little of the Hedwig Pillitz who excelled as a portraitist, and we often have scant information on her sitters. But she clearly had a cultured upbringing, was a talented portraitist, and was drawn instinctively to those in the arts - actors, musicians and writers. Born in Hampstead, Hedwig was the eldest daughter of Arpad Armin Pillitz (1867-1947) and his wife Josephine (née Fischer; 1876-1965) who had emigrated to England from Hungary. She had two younger siblings: a sister Doris (1905-1959) and a brother George (1909-1981). The family lived at 80 Canfield Gardens in South Hampstead and the girls attended the nearby South Hampstead High School where Hedwig excelled at art and Doris in music and drama. The sisters’ considerable accomplishments are mentioned in the 1926 South Hampstead High School Magazine Jubilee Number where they are listed as members of the school’s Past and Present Club. Doris was praised for her musical contribution at the Old Girls’ Dinner in July that year, and the ‘Art’ report records that Hedwig had exhibited a landscape in the 1926 ‘Paris Salon’. Elsewhere, under the heading ‘Recent News’ it was noted that Hedwig was showing a flower piece and a landscape at the Autumn Exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and that Doris had gained a First Class degree in acting at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art, was the winner of the second year students’ Diction Competition, and had been awarded a prize for verse recital at the 1926 Oxford Recitations. Doris subsequently performed regularly as a cast member at the Old Vic theatre in the 1927-29 season. Meanwhile, Hedwig established her studio at 29 Abercorn Place, St John’s Wood, painting a range of notable sitters, women in particular, including the young artist and future novelist Barbara Comyns (lot 75). With many of Pillitz’s sitters being in the arts, it is unsurprising to find that her only painting in a public UK collection is of an actor: Dorothy Black in the role of Emily Brontë in The Brontes (Victoria & Albert Museum). Hedwig painted Black in the lead role in 1933, the year that the play, written by Alfred Sangster, transferred from Sheffield to the Royalty Theatre, London, and bequeathed it to the museum in her will. All Hedwig’s paintings in the present sale seem to have been painted from the late 1920s through until the 1950s. 72 HEDWIG PILLTZ (BRITISH-HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF PADDY GOODMAN VINE signed PiLLiTZ lower right oil on canvas 61 x 51cm; 24 x 20in (unframed)

      Olympia Auctions
    • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Oct. 11, 2023

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £120 - £180

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) 'YORKY' signed PILLITZ lower left oil on panel 36 x 26cm; 14 x 10 1/4in 51 x 41cm; 16 1/4 x 20in (framed) Inscribed QUICK SKETCH OF 'YORKY' / H.E.PILLITZ / 28 ABERCORN PLACE / LONDON, N.W.8 by another hand on the reverse. The sitter was an actor at the Old Vic theatre in London where Doris Pillitz, the artist's sister, performed in a series of Shakespeare's plays in 1926-27. It may well have been through Doris that Hedwig was introduced to the sitter (see intro). ARR may apply

      Olympia Auctions
    • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Oct. 11, 2023

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £100 - £150

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) STILL LIFE WITH IRISES oil on canvas 74 x 51cm; 29 x 20in (unframed) ARR may apply

      Olympia Auctions
    • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Oct. 11, 2023

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £200 - £300

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF MISS LINDY CROOKER oil on canvas 61 x 51cm; 24 x 20in (unframed) ARR may apply

      Olympia Auctions
    • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Oct. 11, 2023

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £300 - £500

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF PADDY GOODMAN VINE oil on canvas 76.5 x 63.5cm; 30 1/4 x 25in (unframed) ARR may apply

      Olympia Auctions
    • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Oct. 11, 2023

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £120 - £180

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF MICHAEL LANE signed PILLITZ lower right oil on panel 40.5 x 30.5 cm; 16 x 12in 49.5 x 39.5 cm; 19 1/2 x 15 1/2in (framed) Inscribed SKETCH / MICHAEL LANE / BY H E PILLITZ / 29 ABERCORN PLACE / N.W.8 by another hand on the reverse ARR may apply

      Olympia Auctions
    • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Oct. 11, 2023

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £300 - £500

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) FATA MORGANA signed PILLITZ lower right; titled FATA MORGANA on the reverse oil on canvas 51 x 41cm; 20.1 x 16.2in 62.5 52.5; 24.5 x 20.5in (framed) ARR may apply

      Olympia Auctions
    • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Oct. 11, 2023

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £120 - £180

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF SHULAMITH SHAFIR oil on canvas 41 x 31cm; 16 1/4 x 12 1/2in (unframed) Shulamith Shafir (1923-2000) was an experienced pianist by age 16, known for bringing compositions by Beethoven and Chopin to performance level in days. During the Second World War she performed for the armed services and at a Dame Myra Hess concert. Shafir’s family moved to London in 1935, where she studied under George Woodhouse,and Solomon Cutner, both of whom influenced her later work. Notable recitals by Shafir include a Thanksgiving concert at the Royal Albert Hall in 1944 where she performed Sir Arthur Bliss's Piano Concerto in B flat, and a Proms night in 1957 performing Liszt's Hungarian Fantasia. ARR may apply

      Olympia Auctions
    • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Oct. 11, 2023

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £300 - £500

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF VERA PANTRA oil on canvas 72.5 x 49cm; 28 1/2 x 19 1/4in (unframed) The sitter is believed to have been an actress. ARR may apply

      Olympia Auctions
    • HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)
      Oct. 11, 2023

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987)

      Est: £350 - £550

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) Hedwig Pillitz (lots 31-39) Introduction We know frustratingly little of the talented Hedwig Pillitz who excelled as a portraitist, particularly portraits of those in the performing arts, notably leading actors and musicians. Born in Hampstead Hedwig was the eldest daughter of Arpad Armin Pillitz (1867-1948), and Josephine Fischer (1876) who had emigrated to England from Hungary. Both she and her younger sister Doris attended South Hampstead High School for girls. There Hedwig excelled at art and Doris in music and drama. The sisters’ considerable accomplishments are mentioned in the 1926 South Hampstead High School Magazine Jubilee Number where they are listed as members of the school’s Past and Present Club. Doris was praised for her musical contribution at the Old Girls’ Dinner in July that year, and the ‘Art’ report records that Hedwig had exhibited a landscape in the 1926 ‘Paris Salon’. Elsewhere, under the heading ‘Recent News’ it was noted that Hedwig was showing a flower piece and a landscape at the Autumn Exhibition at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool and that Doris had gained a First Class degree in acting at the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art; was the winner of the second year students’ Diction Competition, and had been awarded a prize for verse recital at the 1926 Oxford Recitations. A year on Doris is a cast member in the 1927-28 season at the Old Vic, performing in Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, and The Two Noble Kinsmen. It may well have been through Doris that Hedwig met ‘Yorkie’, also an actor at the Old Vic, whose portrait she painted whilst living at 28 Abercorn Place, St John’s Wood (lot 39), and at which address she also painted the dashing Michael Lane (lot 35). Hedwig attracted notable female sitters too as the lots in the present sale attest. Among them, the striking Marguerite Kelsey, a professional model in considerable demand among painters of the day (lot 31), and Russian born Shulamith Shafir, a distinguished concert pianist who made her English concerto debut in 1936 aged just thirteen, and first appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in 1941 (lot 33). With many of Pillitz’s sitters being artists and performers, it is not surprising perhaps to find that of her few paintings in public collections, the best is also of an actor: Dorothy Black in the role of Emily Brontë in The Brontes (Victoria & Albert Museum). Hedwig painted Black in the lead role in 1933, the year that the play, written by Alfred Sangster, transferred from Sheffield to the Royalty Theatre, London. All Hedwig’s paintings in the present sale seem to have been painted from the late 1920s through until the 1950s. HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) PORTRAIT OF MARGUERITE KELSEY oil on canvas 62.3 x 49.5cm; 24 1/2 x 19 1/2in (unframed) With her high cheek bones, fine features and cropped-back hair set off by her striking lime-green necklace, plunging neck line and viridian dress, Pillitz captures Kelsey with the contemporary poise and elegance for which she became noted. Kelsey started modelling at the age of fifteen and quickly became popular amongst artists for her ability to hold poses for a long time. The best-known likeness of her is by Meredith Frampton of 1928 in Tate Britain. Sitting upright on a settee with her legs behind, her gaze averted and wearing a white dress with red shoes she is the epitome of contemporary refinement. Kelsey also sat for Sir William Reid Dick, Sir John Lavery, Augustus John and Dame Ethel Walker amongst many other painters of the day. ARR may apply

      Olympia Auctions
    • HEDWIG PILLITZ (EXH. 1920-1940)
      Jul. 04, 2019

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (EXH. 1920-1940)

      Est: £100 - £200

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (EXH. 1920-1940) Bernice Barry oil on canvas, unframed 15 x 12 in. (38.2 x 30.5 cm.) Painted circa 1930.

      Chiswick Auctions
    • HEDWIG PILLITZ (EXH. 1920-1940)
      Jul. 04, 2019

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (EXH. 1920-1940)

      Est: £150 - £250

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (EXH. 1920-1940) Portrait of a young actor  signed 'PILLITZ' (lower right) oil on canvas board, unframed 15 3/4 x 12 in. (40 x 30.5 cm.) Painted circa 1930.

      Chiswick Auctions
    • HEDWIG PILLITZ (EXH. 1920-1940)
      Jul. 04, 2019

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (EXH. 1920-1940)

      Est: £200 - £400

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (EXH. 1920-1940) Portrait of Sir Anton Dolin signed 'Pillitz' (lower right) oil on board  15 3/4 x 12 in. (40 x 30 cm.) Sir Anton Dolin (1904-1983) was a renowned English ballet dancer and choreographer.

      Chiswick Auctions
    • HEDWIG PILLITZ (20th century), 'Girl with Silk Scarf', oil on canvas laid on board, 38cm x 27.5cm, inscribed verso, framed.
      Nov. 20, 2005

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (20th century), 'Girl with Silk Scarf', oil on canvas laid on board, 38cm x 27.5cm, inscribed verso, framed.

      Est: £100 - £200

      HEDWIG PILLITZ (20th century), 'Girl with Silk Scarf', oil on canvas laid on board, 38cm x 27.5cm, inscribed verso, framed.

      Lots Road Auctions
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