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Lot and His Daughters

Image credit: Ben Uri Collection

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The sculpture of Russian Canadian Jewish sculptor Abrasha Lozoff combined the disparate influences of Grinling Gibbons and Gauguin. His extraordinary woodcarving 'Lot and his two Daughters', was exhibited at the London Group's summer exhibition in June 1926 (Lozoff's first and last showing with the Group). It was judged by the art critic of 'The Times' to be ‘not as good as it looks, owing too much to its Far Eastern reference, though it is evidently the work of a man who knows his job’. The criticism may have also have been provoked by the enormous £1,500 price tag. The work was later presented to the Ben Uri by Lord Sieff in 1936 and a sketch of the same subject (lent by Mr Charles A. Lever) was exhibited at Ben Uri's autumn exhibition in 1951.

Ben Uri Gallery & Museum

London

Title

Lot and His Daughters

Date

1926

Medium

wood

Measurements

H 109 x W 43 x D 45 cm

Accession number

1987-261

Acquisition method

presented by Lord Sieff, 1936

Work type

Statue

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