Showing posts with label Simeon Solomon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simeon Solomon. Show all posts

Saturday, September 21, 2013

David Wilkie Wynfield, Simeon Solomon, c. 1870



Wynfield inveigled his artistic friends into wearing costumes expressive of their personalities. Solomon was the only Jewish Pre-Raphaelite: in this he probably seemed exotic to Wynfield and the wayward strain in Solomon’s personality would have made him seem even more so.
—Michael Bartram, 1985

Autumn - Simeon Solomon


Thursday, August 15, 2013

Simeon Solomon - Day; and Night


the first inscribed 'DAY' (lower centre, in a cartouche) and further numbered and inscribed 'Night/No 2 Left' [sic] (on the reverse), the other inscribed 'NIGHT' (lower centre, in a cartouche), and further inscribed 'From Entrance' and 'Night/Autumn' (on the reverse)
oil on board 
40 x 19 in. (101.5 x 48.3 cm.), the lower edge folded over (2)

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Simeon Solomon - Head of a young woman



signed 'SIMEON SOLOMON' (lower left) 
watercolour and bodycolour, on paper 
13 3/8 x 9 7/8 in. (34 x 25 cm.) 

The present watercolour relates to other compositions of a red-headed figure, sometimes male, sometimes female (as in the present watercolour) and often sexually ambiguous. Comparable works have been sold in these Rooms such as Head of a youth (16 November 2006, lot 208) and Head of a woman with red hair, in profile to the left (21 November 2007, lot 130); both show similar profiles and compositional formats to the present work. A further version, Head of a Young Man, is in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and is dated 1888. A. Symons refers to such works in his book, 'These faces are without sex: they have brooded among the ghosts of passion till they have become the ghosts of themselves: the energy of virtue or of sex has gone out of them, and they hang in space, dry, rattling, the husks of desire.' (From Toulouse-Lautrec to Rodin, London, 1929, p. 156).

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/drawings-watercolors/simeon-solomon-head-of-a-young-woman-5701828-details.aspx?pos=7&intObjectID=5701828&sid&page=2

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Simeon Solomon as an Illustrator Bob Speel


Hosannah
Illustration for Dalziel's Bibible Gallery

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/speel/illus/solomon2.htm