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SIMEON SOLOMON | Night Looking Upon Sleep her Beloved Child (I)
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15,000 - 25,000 GBP
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描述
- Simeon Solomon
- Night Looking Upon Sleep her Beloved Child (I)
- signed and dated l.r.: SIMEON/ SOLOMON/ 1895
- watercolour and charcoal on paper
- 31 by 41cm., 12 by 16in.
來源
Purchased in August 1919 for The Ben Uri Gallery with the assistance of Moshe Oved
展覽
Ben Uri Art Gallery, London, Opening Exhibition, 1944, no.140 as 'Night and Dream';
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, and The London Jewish Museum of Art, Love Revealed - Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites, 2006, no.136;
Osborne Samuel, London, Apocalypse: Unveiling a Lost Masterpiece by Marc Chagall plus 50 Selected Master Works from the Ben Uri Collection, 2010;
Somerset House, London, Out of Chaos: Ben Uri - 100 Years in London, 2015
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, and The London Jewish Museum of Art, Love Revealed - Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites, 2006, no.136;
Osborne Samuel, London, Apocalypse: Unveiling a Lost Masterpiece by Marc Chagall plus 50 Selected Master Works from the Ben Uri Collection, 2010;
Somerset House, London, Out of Chaos: Ben Uri - 100 Years in London, 2015
Condition
This watercolour is in good condition. The sheet is flat. There are a few pinholes (two at the centre of the right edge and another at a position corresponding on the left edge) The paper is a little dirty and the picture may benefit from a light clean. FRAME The drawing is contained in a simple dark-wood frame and under glass with a clean mount.
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"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
拍品資料及來源
'Again I raised my eyes, and saw her who had lately been revealed to us receiving the passing breath of Day; with unrelaxing gaze, and eyes from whose depths comes forth all gentleness, she watched Sleep, her beloved son; and she, to whom all was an open scroll, wept when she looked upon him whose heart was as the heart of a child.'
‘A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep' prose poem by Simeon Solomon Of all the images that Solomon produced, his Symbolist depictions of Night and her child Sleep, was arguably the most powerful. Nyx, the Greek Goddess of Night, is usually depicted as a hooded maternal figure against a starry sky, accompanied by a youth with closed eyes who can be identified as her son Hypnos God of Sleep, fathered by Erebus the God of Darkness. In Solomon’s drawings he usually placed poppies (symbols of sleep due to their opiate powers) in the hair of Hypnos beside wings on his temples (symbolising the flight of time) which was probably derived from classical sculpture such as the famous bronze at the British Museum. There is a sensual languor to the imagery of the two androgynous heads facing each other, one conscious and perceptive and other in slumber which was perhaps a composition inspired by The Sleepers and the One who Watcheth of 1870 (Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum). A lost drawing of 1872 entitled Night and Sleep is known from a photograph and was probably the most elaborate of the various versions; another of the same title is dated 1888 (Birmingham City Art Gallery) and The Moon and Sleep of 1894 (Tate) may also be included in the group of related pictures.
‘A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep' prose poem by Simeon Solomon Of all the images that Solomon produced, his Symbolist depictions of Night and her child Sleep, was arguably the most powerful. Nyx, the Greek Goddess of Night, is usually depicted as a hooded maternal figure against a starry sky, accompanied by a youth with closed eyes who can be identified as her son Hypnos God of Sleep, fathered by Erebus the God of Darkness. In Solomon’s drawings he usually placed poppies (symbols of sleep due to their opiate powers) in the hair of Hypnos beside wings on his temples (symbolising the flight of time) which was probably derived from classical sculpture such as the famous bronze at the British Museum. There is a sensual languor to the imagery of the two androgynous heads facing each other, one conscious and perceptive and other in slumber which was perhaps a composition inspired by The Sleepers and the One who Watcheth of 1870 (Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum). A lost drawing of 1872 entitled Night and Sleep is known from a photograph and was probably the most elaborate of the various versions; another of the same title is dated 1888 (Birmingham City Art Gallery) and The Moon and Sleep of 1894 (Tate) may also be included in the group of related pictures.