Simeon Solomon (1840-1905)
The Evening Star, 1871
Watercolor with shell gold on paper
12 x 9⅜ inches (30.5 x 24.1 cm.)
Monogrammed & dated 'SS 1871'
Provenance
Mrs. Edward DaviesSotheby’s Belgravia, 18 April 1978, lot 43 (as Melancholia)
Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, 1979
Private collection, New York
Exhibitions
London, Baillie Gallery, Paintings and Drawings by the Late Simeon Solomon, 9 December 1905 – 13 January 1906, no. 22 (as Hebrew Maiden Lamenting)Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon and the Pre-Raphaelites, 1 October 2005 – 15 January 2006;
Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, 9 March – 18 June 2006;
London, The Jewish Museum of Art, Ben Uri Gallery, 11 September – 26 November 2006, cat.no. 70, pp. 116-117
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy: British Art and Design, 20 May – 26 October 2014
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Femme Fatale: Gaze – Power - Gender, 9 December 2022 – 10 April 2023, cat. 20, p. 80
Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, Simeon Solomon: Queer and Jewish in Victorian London, 13 March - 27 June 2027
Literature
G.M. Seymour, The Life and Work of Simeon Solomon (1840-1905), 1986, published dissertation, fig. 189, p. 412 (as Hebrew Maiden Lamenting)R. Ferrari a.o., Pre-Raphaelite Society Review, Vol. XXVIII, no. 3, Autumn 2020, p. 100 ill.