Maurice Blond 1899-1974
Parisian Street Scene, 1945
pencil on paper
31.1 x 40.6 cm
framed: 53 x 62 cm
framed: 53 x 62 cm
signed (upper left): 'M. Blond'
1987-39
© Maurice Blond estate
Photo: Bridgeman images
Blond was inspired by Paris and regularly depicted it in his work. This sketch, made the year after the Liberation, shows a typical Parisian street scene and the continuity of...
Blond was inspired by Paris and regularly depicted it in his work. This sketch, made the year after the Liberation, shows a typical Parisian street scene and the continuity of everyday life following this period of turmoil.
Provenance
presented by J. SpreiregenExhibitions
1970 Paintings from the Ben Uri Art Gallery, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum
1977 Selections from the Permanent Collection: Watercolours, Drawings, Graphics, Ben Uri Gallery
1989 Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Ben Uri Art Gallery
2012 Chaim Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris and School of London works from the Ben Uri Collection, Ben Uri Gallery
2013 Chagall, Soutine and the School of Paris: touring exhibition, Manchester Jewish Museum
Literature
Sarah MacDougall ed., Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2012) p. 17;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. 26.
