Lazar Berson 1882-1954

Design for Ben Uri Art Society, 1915

pen and ink on paper and board

26.7 x 22 cm

signed (lower right): Berson [in Hebrew]

1993-16

Photo: Bridgeman images

In 1915 Lazar Berson founded 'The Jewish-National Decorative Art Association (London) Ben Ouri', in Whitechapel in London's East End. In 'the Ben Uri studio' in West London, he brought together...

Provenance

presented by Celia Spencer 1993 in memory of her parents Judah and Dinah Beach, Founder Members of the Society

Literature

Sarah MacDougall ed., Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2012) p. 16;

Gillian Rathbone, ed., The Ben Uri Story from Society to Museum (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2001);

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. 116.

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