Eugen Spiro 1874-1972
Girl with a Rose
oil on canvas
55 x 46
and dated (lower right): 'Spiro '10'
1990-6
@Eugen Spiro estate
Photo: Bridgeman images
Spiro uses soft brush strokes and organic shapes to frame the gentle beauty of his girl with a rose. His early portraits of women appeared frequently (often as cover images),...
Spiro uses soft brush strokes and organic shapes to frame the gentle beauty of his girl with a rose. His early portraits of women appeared frequently (often as cover images), in the magazine of the Jugendstil (or Art Nouveau movement) in Germany.
Provenance
presented by Miss Stephanie Ellen Kohn 1990 in memory of her parents Franz and Margarethe Kohn (nee Schottlander) and her brother Ludwig who perished in the HolocaustLiterature
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. 149.Be the first to know – Sign Up
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