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Lena Pillico 1884-1947

Cottages in the Country, 1932

oil on canvas

50.5 x 65 cm

signed (lower right): Lena Pillico

1987-318

Photo: Bridgeman images

Lena Pillico's ouevre included landscapes, peopled street scenes and portraiture, as well as decorative designs. This rural landscape is from mid-way through her career during her membership of the Seven...

Provenance

presented to Ben Uri, 1946

Exhibitions

1946 Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection and Works by Pissarro, Liebermann, Epstein, Modigliani, Chagall, Ben Uri Art Gallery

2017 Art Out of the Bloodlands: A Century of Polish Artists in Britain, Ben Uri Gallery

2019 Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art, Royal West of England Academy

2020 Refuge and Renewal: Touring exhibition, MoMA Machynlleth Galleries

Literature

Peter Wakelin, Refuge and Renewal: Migration and British Art (Bristol: Sansom & Co, 2019);
Rachel Dickson ed., From Adler to Zuławski: A Century of Polish Artists in Britain (London: Ben Uri Research Unit, 2020) pp. 50-51.;
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. 85.

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