Name Henri Epstein (1892-1944)
Born Lodz, Poland
Died Auschwitz, Poland
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Date c. 1931
Object type painting
Medium oil on canvas
Materials and techniques oil (medium) canvas (support)
Unframed 53 x 71.5 cm
Framed 70.5 x 89.5 cm
Signed (lower left): 'H. Epstein'
Acquisition purchased
Accession number 1987-85
Display status not on display
The title of the painting, Forest of Rambouillet, refers to a forest located west of Paris, near to where the artist used to live. Epstein uses a predominantly green palette, free brushstrokes and generously applied paint to create a textured and vivid surface typical of his later expressive style.
1954
Exhibition of Jewish Art
Hove Museum of Art
1970
Paintings from the Ben Uri Art Gallery
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum
1980
Exhibition of Selected Works from the Permanent Collection of the Ben Uri Art Gallery
Ben Uri Gallery
2012
Chaim Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris and School of London works from the Ben Uri Collection
Ben Uri Gallery
2013
Chagall, Soutine and the School of Paris: touring exhibition
Manchester Jewish Museum
Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall, eds., Ben Uri: 100 Years in London - Art, Identity, Migration (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2015), p. 74 (illus.); Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Camden (London: The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2013), p.12 (illus.); Sarah MacDougall ed., Soutine and his Contemporaries - from Russia to Paris (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2012) p. 22; 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. 38
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