Elsa Fraenkel 1892-1975
Head of a Girl (Shirley Solomon), c. 1938-48
bronze; wooden base
30 x 22 x 23 cm
1988-19
© Elsa Fraenkel estate
Photo: Bridgeman images
The sitter has been identified as Shirley Solomon, daughter of Ethel Solomon (Mrs. Robert B Solomon), who held a number of prominent posts at Ben Uri including Vice President (1937),...
The sitter has been identified as Shirley Solomon, daughter of Ethel Solomon (Mrs. Robert B Solomon), who held a number of prominent posts at Ben Uri including Vice President (1937), Chair (1948-56), member of the Art Committee (1931-56), Chair of the Art Committee (1936-56) and member of the Exhibition Committee (1956). It is not clear whether the portrait was commissioned but it is included in a photograph of the artist's St John's Wood studio, taken c. 1938, and it was exhibited at the Women's International Art Club in 1948 as 'Shirly [sic] Solomon'.
Provenance
Presented by Alice Schwab 1988Literature
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. 123.3
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