Unknown
Celebration (Dancing Figures)
oil on canvas
65.5 x 95.8 cm
1987-14i
Photo: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
This celebratory composition by an unknown artist showing seven men, smartly dressed in suits, wing collar shirts and spats, engaged in a joyful dance can be tentatively dated to the...
This celebratory composition by an unknown artist showing seven men, smartly dressed in suits, wing collar shirts and spats, engaged in a joyful dance can be tentatively dated to the 1920s. The artist has engaged with modernist techniques including representing the motion of the dance itself through the circular sweep of energy created by the men’s feet. Their hands are shown in emphatic gestures that are common to several types of Jewish dance.
This painting has a further composition, Man Seated by River with Boats, on the reverse. The artist of both works is currently unknown.Literature
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. 20, listed as 'Conference/Dancing Figures'.Be the first to know – Sign Up
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