Jack Bilbo 1907-1967
framed 89 x 54.7 cm
Bilbo’s portrait of Miriam depicts her close up and head on, her features and complexion picked out in a typically bright, non-naturalistic palette that seems to reflect the prevalent trends of 1960s’ culture, as well as the artist's own ebullient personality. Self-taught as an artist, Bilbo did not adhere to any specific movement or formal artistic style but was influenced by Surrealism and frequently depicted bizarre, erotic and sometimes grotesque themes.
Provenance
presented by Merry Kerr-Woodeson, 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
2017 Refugees: The Lives of Others - German Refugee Artists to the UK, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum
2017 Thirty-six Pounds and Ninety-five Pence: Artworks by Contemporary Migrant Artists, Ben Uri Gallery
2018 Finchleystrasse: German artists in exile in Great Britain and beyond 1933-45, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, London (Department of Culture and Education)
2019 Migrations: masterworks from the Ben Uri Collection, Gloucester Museum
2020 Internment: In Memory of Eva Aldbrook, Ben Uri Gallery
Literature
Finchleystrasse: German artists in exile in Great Britain and beyond 1933-45 (London: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum in association with the German Embassy London, 2018), p. 17.;
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. 24.
