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| BERMAN, Eugene (1899-1972), Russian, Gouache, Theatre Design, ca.1943, (9-¼ "x 12") |
Artist: Eugene
Berman (1899-1972), Russian
Title: “Andromeda”
Production: Andromeda Production, Set Stage Design
Date: 1943¹
Medium: Gouache
on Paper, Theatre Design for Divert Easement
Materials: Medium on Light brown paper.
Markings: Signed, Monogrammed Center
“E.B”.
Dimensions: 9-¼” x 12”.
Framed: Yes,
item has remained in the original frame when acquired by Mr. Prince and Mr. Hemphill, Jr.;
Provenance: Neal Adair Prince Trust u/a/d 10.18.1999
Mr. Neal Prince
Mr. Neal Prince
and Mr. Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.
Roy
Davis Gallery, New York
Footnote¹: It is suggested that this
item is from the show, “ANDROMEDA” (1943), (which was a) mythic figure is depicted, not chained to an ocean rock
poised for rescuer by Perseus, but collapsed unconscious near a desert lake in the rubble of Death Valley.” –
From the book “High Drama – Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime”, by Michael
Duncan. © 2004, Published by Hudson Hills Press LLC, 74-2 Union Street, Manchester,
Vermont 0525, pg
17. However, the Item has the script notation; “49”, which may be the scene number.
Institution
Holdings: Art Institute of Chicago
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Brooklyn Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Harvard University Art Museums
Eugene Berman in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Museum of Modern Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum
Sheldon Art Gallery
Eugene Berman at the Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue
Eugene Berman (1899-1972), Russian
Born in St. Petersburg, Russian. His profession was a painter and stage-designer, much concerned
with the romantic grandeur of Italian Renaissance architecture. Born in St. Petersburg
of a prosperous banking family. Studied painting from the age of 14, his first teacher being an architect who stimulated his
interest in architecture. Settle in Paris in 1919 and studied 1919-1920 at the Acadmie Ranson,
but as a painter mainly self-taught. Made many prolonged visits to Italy from 1922 onwards to study antique ruins, and Renaissance
and Baroque architecture. Become identified with the Neo-Romantic movement whose members included Bernard, Tchelitchew and
his brother, Lenonid Berman. First one-man exhibition at the Galerie Granoff, Pairs, 1927. Active from 1937 as a designer
for ballet and opera for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, including sets and costumes for Lifar’s Icare 1937 and Balanchine’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme 1944. Moved
from Paris to the United States in 1939. He worked for the American
Ballet Caravan 1941 and the Ballet Theatre in 1942, 1943 and 1944. In 1944, he became a United State Citizen. He spent much
time in Italy again from 1950, mainly in Rome,
Italy where he died.
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