Eugen Spiro, Girl with a Rose

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),...

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 Holocaust

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. 149.

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