Paintings

Helena Darmesteter 1850-1940

The Choice of a Flower (aka Reflection in a Mirror), 1896

oil on canvas

90 x 60 cm
framed: 130 x 100 cm

signed (lower left): 'Helena Darmesteter'

1987-72

Photo: Bridgeman images

This work was included in the 1905 book ‘Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day’ by Walter Shaw...

Provenance

presented by Sir Philip Hartog 1942

Exhibitions

2003 Director's Choice: Highlights from the Ben Uri Permanent Collection, Ben Uri Gallery - The London Jewish Museum of Art

2009 Homeless & Hidden 1: World Class Collection Homeless & Hidden, Ben Uri Gallery

Literature

Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Camden (London: The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2013), p.12 (illus. included);
Walter Schwab 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. 35.;
Walter Shaw Sparrow, Women Painters of the World, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1905)

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