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Artworks
Arthur Segal 1875-1944
Halen, La Ciotat (Harbour Scene), 1929oil on canvas68.5 x 88.3 cm(lower right): A Segal1987-365Photo: Bridgeman imagesDuring the First World War Segal began to make optical experiments in his painting, developing a distinctive type of prismatic Cubism. La Ciotat is a port in the south of...During the First World War Segal began to make optical experiments in his painting, developing a distinctive type of prismatic Cubism. La Ciotat is a port in the south of France near Marseilles. Painted in 1929, Segal’s dazzling image of a peacetime harbour shimmering in the sunlight gives no hint of the darker future. His artistic experiments sought to break with a single point of focus or dominance in painting and here he combines his knowledge of Impressionism (as a means of representing light) with his individual and striking variant of Cubism, dividing his canvas into eight carefully constructed and balanced schematic fields.Provenance
presented c. 1946Exhibitions
1946 Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection and Works by Pissarro, Liebermann, Epstein, Modigliani, Chagall, Ben Uri Art Gallery
1950 Landscapes by Arthur Segal, Marianne Segal, The Cooling Galleries Ltd.
1954 Exhibition of Jewish Art, Hove Museum of Art
1970 Paintings from the Ben Uri Art Gallery, Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum
1979 Exhibition of Selected Works from the Permanent Collection: Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture, Ben Uri Art Gallery
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
2010 Forced Journeys: Artists in Exile in Britain, c. 1933-45, Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
2015 Out of Chaos – Ben Uri: 100 Years in London, Somerset House
2018 Exodus: masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection, Bushey Museum
2019 Art-exit: 1939 - A Very Different Europe, 12 Star Gallery
2023 Joy, Ben Uri Gallery
Literature
Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall, eds., 'Out of Chaos: Ben Uri; 100 Years in London' (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2015) pp. 70-71.; 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. 94
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