Maria Lassnig

(Austrian, 1919–2014)

Maria Lassnig was an Austrian painter known for her psychologically expressive self-portraits, often rendered with a combination of turquoise greens and saturated magentas. Lassnig’s work explores “body awareness” using distorted or exaggerated features to depict internal sensations and feelings. An artist with a career spanning over 50 years, Lassnig only began to receive international attention when she was well into her 60s, garnering major exhibitions and the admiration of contemporary painters such as Dana Schutz. Her work was notably the subject of a retrospective in 2014 at the MoMA P.S.1 museum in Queens, NY. Born on September 8, 1919 in Kappel am Krappfeld, Austria, she went on to attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna during the Second World War, moving to New York to study animated film in the early 1970s at the School of Visual Arts. The artist died on May 6, 2014 in Vienna, Austria at the age of 94. Today, Lassnig’s works are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Essl Collection of Contemporary Art, and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, among others. 

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Maria Lassnig Artworks

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Maria Lassnig (586 results)
Tag & Nachtgedanken, 1991

Maria Lassnig

Tag & Nachtgedanken, 1991

Sale Date: June 5, 2018

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o.T., 1984

Maria Lassnig

o.T., 1984

Sale Date: May 29, 2018

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Untitled, 1952

Maria Lassnig

Untitled, 1952

Sale Date: June 2, 2018

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Collector-couple, 1993

Maria Lassnig

Collector-couple, 1993

Sale Date: May 16, 2018

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untitled, 1990

Maria Lassnig

untitled, 1990

Sale Date: March 5, 2018

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Selbtsbildnis

Maria Lassnig

Selbtsbildnis

Sale Date: March 13, 2018

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Untitled, 2005

Maria Lassnig

Untitled, 2005

Sale Date: March 1, 2018

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Fruchtbarkeit, 1987

Maria Lassnig

Fruchtbarkeit, 1987

Sale Date: November 30, 2016

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Die Schwestern Reiterer

Maria Lassnig

Die Schwestern Reiterer

Sale Date: November 30, 2016

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Aus der Edition Friendship, 2008

Maria Lassnig

Aus der Edition Friendship, 2008

Sale Date: November 29, 2017

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Im Garten, 1966

Maria Lassnig

Im Garten, 1966

Sale Date: December 8, 2017

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View from the artist's atelier in New York, 1976

Maria Lassnig

View from the artist's atelier in New York, 1976

Sale Date: December 6, 2017

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Untitled, 1946

Maria Lassnig

Untitled, 1946

Sale Date: December 6, 2017

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Brooklyn Bridge, 1971

Maria Lassnig

Brooklyn Bridge, 1971

Sale Date: December 6, 2017

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Zwei im Garten; Der scharfe Technische..., 1987

Maria Lassnig

Zwei im Garten; Der scharfe Technische..., 1987

Sale Date: December 6, 2017

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married couple Resch, 1999

Maria Lassnig

married couple Resch, 1999

Sale Date: December 6, 2017

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In der Bretagne u. am Meer, 1999

Maria Lassnig

In der Bretagne u. am Meer, 1999

Sale Date: November 23, 2017

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Eternal Illusion (addition to: Die Feder ist , 2000

Maria Lassnig

Eternal Illusion (addition to: Die Feder ist , 2000

Sale Date: November 23, 2017

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Portrait Roland von Schulze, 1977

Maria Lassnig

Portrait Roland von Schulze, 1977

Sale Date: November 23, 2017

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Innerhalb und außerhalb der Leinwand II, 1984–1985

Maria Lassnig

Innerhalb und außerhalb der Leinwand II, 1984–1985

Sale Date: November 22, 2017

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Innerhalb und außerhalb der Leinwand I, 1984–1985

Maria Lassnig

Innerhalb und außerhalb der Leinwand I, 1984–1985

Sale Date: November 22, 2017

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Perdre la bataille

Maria Lassnig

Perdre la bataille

Sale Date: October 29, 2017

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Perdre la bataille

Maria Lassnig

Perdre la bataille

Sale Date: October 27, 2017

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Buttonhole, 1958

Maria Lassnig

Buttonhole, 1958

Sale Date: June 21, 2017

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