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Abraham Lozoff, Lot and his Daughters, c. 1926

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Abraham Lozoff 1887-1936

Lot and his Daughters, c. 1926

wood

109 x 43 x 45 cm

1987-261

Photo: Bridgeman images

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The work of Russian-Canadian Jewish sculptor Abrasha Lozoff combined the disparate influences of Grinling Gibbons and Gauguin. His extraordinary woodcarving Lot and his two Daughters, later donated by Lord Sieff to the Ben Uri), was exhibited at the London Group's summer exhibition in June 1926 (Lozoff's first and last showing with the Group). It was judged by the art critic of 'The Times' to be ‘not as good as it looks, owing too much to its Far Eastern reference, though it is evidently the work of a man who knows his job’. The criticism may have also have been provoked by the enormous £1,500 price tag. The work was later presented to the Ben Uri by Lord Sieff in 1936 and a sketch of the same subject (lent by Mr. Charles A. Lever) was exhibited at Ben Uri's autumn exhibition in 1951.

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presented by Lord Sieff 1936

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. 74.

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