Lot 172
Simeon Solomon (British, 1840-1905), "Profile Head of a Saint or Angel", 1905, black chalk and pastel, signed in monogram and dated lower right, inscribed "Simeon Solomon" en verso, on beige wove paper, watermarked by J. What[man], 13 15/16 in. x 20 1/2 in., with small mended tear at left center Provenance: James R. Lamantia, Jr.,New Orleans and New York. Note: The artist of this fine sheet was unusually precocious, taking his first academic training at age twelve, and entering the Royal Academy Schools at sixteen. Through the influence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Solomon became enamored of the fashionable Pre-Raphaelite style. His artist sister Rebecca Solomon (1832-1886) encouraged his deep Hebraic spirituality. In the mid-1860s he came under the profound influence of Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898), who particularly affected his technique of drawing; he began painting seductive mythological subjects from the classical repertory, which enjoyed an enormous success. He became intimately associated with Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, Albert Moore, and William Morris; but personal problems beginning in 1873 caused his work and his health to deteriorate, and much of his later work does...
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