Helena Darmesteter 1850-1940
The Choice of a Flower (aka Reflection in a Mirror), 1896
oil on canvas
90 x 60 cm
framed: 130 x 100 cm
framed: 130 x 100 cm
signed (lower left): 'Helena Darmesteter'
1987-72
Photo: Bridgeman images
This work was included in the 1905 book ‘Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day’ by Walter Shaw...
This work was included in the 1905 book ‘Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day’ by Walter Shaw Sparrow. It was probably exhibited as (no. 18) 'Reflections' in the 1927 exhibition of 'Jewish Art and Antiquities' at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.
Provenance
presented by Sir Philip Hartog 1942Exhibitions
2003 Director's Choice: Highlights from the Ben Uri Permanent Collection, Ben Uri Gallery - The London Jewish Museum of Art
2009 Homeless & Hidden 1: World Class Collection Homeless & Hidden, Ben Uri Gallery
Literature
Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Camden (London: The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2013), p.12 (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. 35.;
Walter Shaw Sparrow, Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1905)
