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The Property of the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum (lots 36-38)Founded in 1915 in London’s East End, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum has followed a remarkable trajectory from Jewish émigré beginnings to mainstream art museum operating under the banner ‘Art, Identity and Migration’. Ranging from late 19th-century painting to 21st-century new media, this distinct visual survey by artists of Jewish descent, including Auerbach, Bomberg, Chagall, Gertler, Kossoff and Soutine, has since 2001 widened to embrace émigrés from all backgrounds and ethnicities, including most recently, British-Caribbean artist Tam Joseph. This sale is part of the refinement and redefinition of the collection. In 2015 Ben Uri celebrated its centenary with the masterpiece exhibition Out of Chaos: Ben Uri – 100 Years in London at Somerset House, revised and expanded as 100 for 100: Ben Uri, Past, Present and Future at Christie’s, South Kensington (2016), touring to the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle (2016–17). In this era of intense political debate around migration, the current exhibition programme reflects the enrichment of visual culture by refugees and immigrants to the UK from Germany (2016), Poland (2016) and the Indian sub-continent (2017).Simeon Solomon first met Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones in about 1858, by which time he was already producing drawings and watercolours very much in the Pre-Raphaelite style. His earliest work generally takes Hebrew history as its subject, and during the 1860s he worked for William Morris and produced delicate and elaborate book illustrations. As the decade progressed, he became increasingly associated with the group of artists and writers emerging as the Aesthetic movement, and influenced by them, took a greater interest in classical themes and subjects. He was disgraced in 1873 when he was arrested for homosexual behaviour, and following this worked on the fringes of society, producing increasingly symbolist drawings. This group of drawings are strong examples from Solomon's later period, demonstrating his remarkable fluidity and delicacy of handling, and his enduring interest in the classical and mystical.
Simeon Solomon (1840-1905)
Head of a youth
細節
Simeon Solomon (1840-1905)
Head of a youth
signed with initials and dated '1888' (lower left)
red chalk on paper
15 x 11 ¼ in. (38.1 x 28.6 cm.)
Head of a youth
signed with initials and dated '1888' (lower left)
red chalk on paper
15 x 11 ¼ in. (38.1 x 28.6 cm.)
來源
Ethel Solomon, by whom given to
Ben Uri Gallery and Museum.
Ben Uri Gallery and Museum.
榮譽呈獻
Clare Keiller