Lazar Berson 1882-1954
Circular Design for Ben Uri Art Society, c. 1915
coloured inks on paper
44 x 44 cm
signed (verso): D. Simkovitz, signature or dedication on reverse of circular design reading 'D. Simkovitz'
1988-50
© Lazar Berson estate
Photo: Bridgeman images
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This beautiful, intricate design executed in pen and coloured inks incorporates flowers, birds and animals with signs of the zodiac and Yiddish lettering marked Ben Uri's progress one year on....
This beautiful, intricate design executed in pen and coloured inks incorporates flowers, birds and animals with signs of the zodiac and Yiddish lettering marked Ben Uri's progress one year on. It may even have been a collaboration with Dovod Simkovitz, who presented it to the Ben Uri Collection in the year of its creation. It reveals the precision and pattern-making that characterised Berson's style, which was probably influenced by the Machmadim (Precious Ones), a textless Jewish art journal produced in Paris in 1912 by Isaac Lichtenstein and others. The circular design is one of a number of fine designs produced specifically to mark the birth of the Ben Uri.
Provenance
presented by D. Simkovitz in 1915Exhibitions
2010
Apocalypse: unveiling a lost masterpiece by Marc Chagall and 50 selected masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection
Osborne Samuel
2012
Chaim Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris and School of London works from the Ben Uri Collection
Ben Uri Gallery
2015
Out of Chaos – Ben Uri: 100 Years in London
Somerset House
2016
100 for 100: Ben Uri Past, Present & Future
Christie's South Kensington
2019
Migrations: masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection
Gloucester Museum
Literature
Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall, eds., Out of Chaos: Ben Uri; 100 Years in London (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2015) pp. 44-45;Sarah MacDougall ed., Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2012) p. 16.
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