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Description
§ Anna Mayerson (German 1906-1984)
Cellist on horseback
oil on canvas
101.5 x 152cm
Footnote:
Despite enjoying a successful career as a painter, exhibiting alongside artists such as Graham Sutherland, Otto Bachmann, and Jankel Adler and, notably, having been commissioned by Truman Capote to illustrate the frontispiece to his 1951 novel, The Grass Harp, more recently, the works of Austrian-Jewish émigré Anna Mayerson have been sadly neglected.
Born in Vienna in 1906, Mayerson spent her early career training at The Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zürich and at The Art Academy in Vienna. In 1938 the Nazi annexation of Austria forced Mayerson to emigrate to London, where she continued her studies at The Slade School and, after a decade spent living in Taormina, Sicily, between 1949 and 1959, would eventually settle.
Tenaciously refusing to seek the acceptance of ‘fashionable’ artistic circles, Mayerson was a singular and democratic voice amongst many of her contemporaries, depicting ordinary subjects in extraordinary ways. Oscillating between the abstract and the figural, the bold and playful works included in this sale are typical of Mayerson’s distinctive and audacious style.
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