Lazar Berson 1882-1954
Design with Decorative Vessels from the Ben Uri Collection, 1915
pen and ink and pencil on paper mounted on board
27 x 35.7 cm
signed and inscribed (lower right): (in Yiddish) 'The Group of the Ben Ouri Decorative Arts'
1993-7
© Lazar Berson estate
Photo: Bridgeman images
Ben Uri founder Lazar Berson created this design to showcase a number of the objects made by the Ben Uri studio. Although the work has always been catalogued as 'Design...
Ben Uri founder Lazar Berson created this design to showcase a number of the objects made by the Ben Uri studio. Although the work has always been catalogued as 'Design with Decorative Vessels', the Yiddish line at the base reads ‘A grupe fun 'ben uri’s' dekorative shafungen’, which translates as 'A group of Ben Uri decorative craftworks'. We are grateful to David Mazower for his help with this entry.
Provenance
presented by Celia Spencer 1993, in memory of her parents Judah and Dinah Beach, Founder Members of the SocietyExhibitions
2009 Homeless & Hidden 1: World Class Collection Homeless & Hidden, Ben Uri Gallery
2010 Apocalypse: unveiling a lost masterpiece by Marc Chagall and 50 selected masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection, Osborne Samuel
2012 Chaim Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris and School of London works from the Ben Uri Collection, Ben Uri Gallery
Literature
Gillian Rathbone, ed., The Ben Uri Story from Society to Museum (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2001);
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. 116.
