Martin Bloch 1883-1954
House in Varengeville, Normandy, 1939-43
oil on canvas
63.5 x 79.7 cm
framed 81 x 97.5 cm
framed 81 x 97.5 cm
signed (lower right) 'Bloch'
1987-37
© Martin Bloch Trust
Photo: Bridgeman images
Drawing on both his admiration for Cézanne and his Expressionist roots, Bloch’s rural French landscape powerfully conveys emotion through colour. The artist has indicated on the reverse of the canvas...
Drawing on both his admiration for Cézanne and his Expressionist roots, Bloch’s rural French landscape powerfully conveys emotion through colour. The artist has indicated on the reverse of the canvas that this painting was begun in 1939 and later finished in 1943.
Provenance
presented by Alexander Margulies 1987Literature
Finchleystrasse: German artists in exile in Great Britain and beyond 1933-45 (London: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in association with the German Embassy London, 2018), p. 18.;Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Camden (London: The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2013), p. 8, illus.;
Walter Schwabe 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. 25.
