Simon Black, Damascus Gate Coffee Shop, 1985

Simon Black 1958-2008

Damascus Gate Coffee Shop, 1985

etching on paper

13.9 x 17.8 cm
framed 29.6 x 35.2 cm

signed and dated (lower right): Simon H Black 85

1987-33

Photo: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum

This etching from the early part of Manchester-born painter and engraver Simon Black's career, depicts a coffee shop in Damascus Gate, portal to the old city of Jerusalem, with its...

Provenance

purchased by the Ben Uri Art Society 1986

Exhibitions

1998 Landscapes of Israel: Israeli Artists and Scenes from the Ben Uri Collection, Etz Chayim Gallery

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. 25.

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