Jacob Kramer 1892-1962
Portrait of a Woman in Red (aka A Gypsy), c. 1937
oil on canvas
75 x 63 cm
Framed: 90 x 77.5 cm
Framed: 90 x 77.5 cm
signed (lower left): 'Kramer'
1991-3
© The William Roberts Society, London
Photo: Bridgeman images
This work was gifed to the Ben Uri Collection under the title 'A Gypsy', although this seems to be a misnomer, given that it differs from Kramer's many portraits of...
This work was gifed to the Ben Uri Collection under the title 'A Gypsy', although this seems to be a misnomer, given that it differs from Kramer's many portraits of his sister Sarah dressed in the gypsy attire made fashionable by Augustus John. Instead, the work is closer to other portraits of women executed in the late 1930s, including 'Portrait of Peggy', c. 1937, in which the sitter (although clearly a different model) wears a similar v-necked red dress.
Provenance
presented by Rose & Bernard Gillinson, 1991Exhibitions
1960 Jacob Kramer, Leeds City Art Gallery
1992 Jewish Artists at the Slade: Auerbach, Bomberg, Cohen, Gertler (and recent acquisitions), Ben Uri Gallery
2020 Interstices: Discovering the Ben Uri Collection - An Online Exhibition Curated by René Gimpel, Ben Uri Gallery
Literature
Sarah MacDougall ed., Interstices - Discovering the Ben Uri Collection Guest curated by René Gimpel (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2020), pp. 60-61;Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Camden (London: The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2013), p.23 (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. 134.
