Sandra Blow 1925-2006

Drawing No. 21, c.1969

crayon, gouache and oil on paper

18 x 14 cm
mount: 35 x 29.5 cm

signed (lower right): Blow

1987-42

Photo: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum

Blow considered herself an ‘academic abstract painter’, primarily concerned with balance and proportion. Issues, she described as ‘important since art began’. Her often large, non-figurative work, has been described as...

Provenance

purchased c. 1969

Exhibitions

1969 Sandra Blow, Henry Inlander, Leon Kossoff, Helena Markson, Archibald Ziegler, Ben Uri Art Gallery

1977 Selections from the Permanent Collection: Watercolours, Drawings, Graphics, Ben Uri Gallery

2009 Homeless & Hidden 2: World Class Collection Homeless & Hidden, Ben Uri Gallery

2015 No Set Rules: A Century of Selected Works from the Schlee Collection, Southampton, and the Ben Uri Collection, London, Ben Uri Gallery

2018 Exodus: masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection, Bushey Museum

2020 Interstices: Discovering the Ben Uri Collection - An Online Exhibition Curated by René Gimpel, Ben Uri Gallery

2023 “Sheer Verve”: The Women's International Art Club 1898–1978 Ben Uri Gallery

Literature

Sarah MacDougall ed., Interstices - Discovering the Ben Uri Collection Guest curated by René Gimpel (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2020), pp. 22-23.;
Sarah MacDougall ed., No Set Rules: A Century of Selected Works from the Schlee Collection, Southampton, and the Ben Uri Collection, London (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2015), pp. 32-33 (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. 27.

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