Sandra Blow 1925-2006
Drawing No. 21, c.1969
crayon, gouache and oil on paper
18 x 14 cm
mount: 35 x 29.5 cm
mount: 35 x 29.5 cm
signed (lower right): Blow
1987-42
© Sandra Blow estate
Photo: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
Blow considered herself an ‘academic abstract painter’, primarily concerned with balance and proportion. Issues, she described as ‘important since art began’. Her often large, non-figurative work, has been described as...
Blow considered herself an ‘academic abstract painter’, primarily concerned with balance and proportion. Issues, she described as ‘important since art began’. Her often large, non-figurative work, has been described as ‘gestural and impulsive in form’, and often includes collage and non-traditional materials. Here she uses bold upward sweeps of colour to create drama and dynamism.
Provenance
purchased c. 1969Exhibitions
1969 Sandra Blow, Henry Inlander, Leon Kossoff, Helena Markson, Archibald Ziegler, Ben Uri Art Gallery
1977 Selections from the Permanent Collection: Watercolours, Drawings, Graphics, Ben Uri Gallery
2009 Homeless & Hidden 2: World Class Collection Homeless & Hidden, Ben Uri Gallery
2015 No Set Rules: A Century of Selected Works from the Schlee Collection, Southampton, and the Ben Uri Collection, London, Ben Uri Gallery
2018 Exodus: masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection, Bushey Museum
2020 Interstices: Discovering the Ben Uri Collection - An Online Exhibition Curated by René Gimpel, Ben Uri Gallery
2023 “Sheer Verve”: The Women's International Art Club 1898–1978 Ben Uri Gallery
Literature
Sarah MacDougall ed., Interstices - Discovering the Ben Uri Collection Guest curated by René Gimpel (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2020), pp. 22-23.;Sarah MacDougall ed., No Set Rules: A Century of Selected Works from the Schlee Collection, Southampton, and the Ben Uri Collection, London (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2015), pp. 32-33 (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. 27.
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