Gerald Marks 1921-2018
Emerging Image, 1962
oil on canvas
102 x 76 cm
framed: 103 x 78 cm
framed: 103 x 78 cm
signed and dated (verso): Gerald Marks 1962
1987-274
© Gerald Marks estate
Photo: Ben Uri Gallery
The head and shoulders of a figure denoted by a patchwork of colours emerges from the background of Gerald Marks’ painting, fusing his earlier figurative, social realist works (in line...
The head and shoulders of a figure denoted by a patchwork of colours emerges from the background of Gerald Marks’ painting, fusing his earlier figurative, social realist works (in line with his Communist beliefs) with his later, large-scale, non-political abstracts. It was painted in the same year that Marks held a solo show of abstract paintings at Polish émigrée Halima Nalecz’s Drian Gallery.
Provenance
purchased 1962 (Picture Purchase Fund)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. 76.Be the first to know – Sign Up
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