Ruth Collet 1909-2001
Pear Tree after Picking
oil on canvas
91.5 x 63.8 cm
1987-67
© Ruth Collet estate
Photo: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
Painter, printer and illustrator Ruth Collet (née Salaman) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, with Stanley William Hayter Atelier 17 in Paris, and at the private art school...
Painter, printer and illustrator Ruth Collet (née Salaman) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, with Stanley William Hayter Atelier 17 in Paris, and at the private art school of New Zealand-born Kathleen Browne and her Polish émigré husband Marian Kratochwil. Salaman was associated with the East London Group and also exhibited with the London Group, the Royal Academy, the New English Art Club and the Society of Women Artists, as well as extensively with the WIAC including on the executive and selection committee in 1958. She also exhibited at Ben Uri Gallery with fellow WIAC exhibitors Adele Reifenberg (1950) and Lottie Reizenstein (1970). Pear Tree after Picking is typical of her bold, painterly style.
Provenance
presented by the artist 1950Exhibitions
1950 Paintings, Drawings etc., by Julius Rosenbaum 1903-1949, Adele Reifenberg 1915-1949, Ruth Collet (Recent Work), Ben Uri Gallery
1960 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Ben Uri Art Gallery
1970 Paintings from the Ben Uri Art Gallery, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum
1992 Jewish Artists at the Slade: Auerbach, Bomberg, Cohen, Gertler (and recent acquisitions), Ben Uri Gallery
Literature
Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Camden (London: The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2013), p.11 (illus. included);Walter Schwab and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 34.
