Anna Mayerson mid 20th century portrait

A beguiling and  mysterious portrait by the important emigre painter, Anna Mayerson. A gouache onto card, most likely completed in London soon after her return from Sicily in 1959. The piece is signed with her AM monogram top left and has a faint inscription/title 'The Melon Eater' bottom right.

The image/sight measures: 35cm x 40cm under a linen mount, housed in a period beechwood frame which measures: 60cm x 65cm

 

 

Artist Biography

Anna Mayerson 1906-1984

Anna Mayerson was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria) in 1906. She studied Fine Art in Zürich, Switzerland and at the Vienna Academy. In 1938, following the Anschluss (Nazi annexation of Austria), she fled to England, settling in London, where she completed her studies at the Slade School of Fine Art. She exhibited extensively in London: showing a portrait at Claridges in 1940, then holding solo exhibitions in 1942, at German-Jewish émigré Jack Bilbo's Modern Art Gallery in London, and at the Leger Galleries in 1943. In 1946 her work was included in a group show alongside the English painter Graham Sutherland and émigrés Jankel Adler, Raol Ubac and Otto Bachmann at the prestigious Redfern Gallery in Cork Street, London. She also exhibited at Erica Brausen’s Hanover Gallery in Mayfair and participated in mixed shows with the Artists' International Association (AIA); the Arts Council; Ben Uri Gallery; the London Group and the Leicester Galleries, London. Between 1949 and 1959 she lived in Taormina, Sicily, and exhibited in continental Europe. She later returned to London and held two solo shows at Annely Juda Fine Art in 1971 and 1972. She liked to work on a large scale in both a figurative and abstract style. Anna Mayerson died in London in 1984. Her work is represented in the Ben Uri Collection and Somerville College, University of Oxford.

Biography from The Ben Uri Gallery

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