Simeon Solomon (1840-1905)

For the Night must Pass before the Coming Day

Details

Simeon Solomon (1840-1905)
For the Night must Pass before the Coming Day
signed, and dated 'SIMEON/SOLOMON/1893' (lower right) and inscribed with title (below)
black chalk
14½ x 20¾ in. (36.9 x 52.8 cm.)

Literature

Simon Reynolds, The Vision of Simeon Solomon, London, 1984, p. 96, illustrated.

Exhibited

London, Geffrye Museum, and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Solomon: A Family of Painters, 1985-1986, no. 71.
London, Barbican Art Gallery, The Last Romantics, 1989, no. 22.

Lot Essay

Night, shadowed and sunk in slumber, is overtaken by the brighter, winged figure of Day. Such vague symbolist concepts were the stock-in-trade of Solomon's late paintings and drawings. 'Night, Sleep, Death and the Stars, they are the theme that I love best', he told Julia Elsworth Ford, his American admirer and author of the first monograph on him, published in New York in 1908.

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