Jacob Bornfriend 1904-1976
Blue Grey Fishes, c. 1950s-60s
oil on canvas
61.6 x 49 cm
framed: 67 x 54.5 cm
framed: 67 x 54.5 cm
signed (lower right): J. Bornfriend
1987-50
© Jacob Bornfriend estate
Photo: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
From the late 1950s onwards, Bornfriend experimented with abstraction in dialogue with British Abstractionists Patrick Heron and Peter Lanyon, exploring rhythm, pattern, colour and gestural mark-making. The loose brush strokes...
From the late 1950s onwards, Bornfriend experimented with abstraction in dialogue with British Abstractionists Patrick Heron and Peter Lanyon, exploring rhythm, pattern, colour and gestural mark-making. The loose brush strokes in the artist’s favoured blue-grey palette contribute to the abstract style of Bornfriend’s composition. Primarily a painter in oil and tempera, he favoured still lifes and landscape.
Provenance
presented by Alexander Margulies 1987Exhibitions
2009 Forced Journeys: Artists in Exile in Britain, c. 1933-45, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
2009 Homeless & Hidden 2: World Class Collection Homeless & Hidden, Ben Uri Gallery
2019 Art-exit: 1939 - A Very Different Europe, 12 Star Gallery
2019 Czech Routes: Selected Czechoslovakian Artists in Britain, Ben Uri Gallery
Literature
Nicola Baird ed., Czech Routes: Selected Czechoslovak Artists in Britain from the Ben Uri and Private Collections (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2019);Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall, eds., Ben Uri: 100 Years in London - Art, Identity, Migration (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2015), p. 86 (illus.);
Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Camden (London: The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2013), p.9 (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. 30
