The jar of salt

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George Weissbort
The jar of salt
1969

About the Item

Literature: The power of a glass jar to dominate a still life painting resides in the tension of the transparent container with the contents. Glasses of wine are common components of still life paintings, but a filled container is more challenging, as can be seen in Weissbort’s striking Arrangement with a loaf, a jar of red peppers & white linen on a shelf[q.v.]. Other artists who have used this motif include Miguel Parra (1784-1846), Still life with walnuts, olives in a glass jar, a partly-peeled lemon & a glass of wine, and the Hungarian Romek Arpad (1883-1960), many of whose compositions are based on arrangements of glass jars. Here Weissbort uses the strong white note of the jar of salt, together with a white napkin, to lift a still life built out of abstracted areas of dark, rich colour – lapis blue, bottle green, purple and soft red, Within this pattern, the different textures are set against each other – the soft pile of the fabric, the smooth gleam of fruit, the transp arency of glass, and the powdery roughness of salt seen through the sheen of the glass. GEORGE WEISSBORT - (1928 -) was born in Belgium and moved to London at the age of 7. He attended the Central School of Art & Design (now St Martin?s) where he was taught by Ruskin Spear and Rodrigo Moynihan. He was influenced by Arthur Segal to move from the abstract expressionism of the 1940s to realism, and by Bernard Meninsky, who taught life drawing at the Central School, to study the Old Masters. He turned first to artists such as C?zanne and Matisse, and later to Vermeer, Chardin, Velasquez, Corot, Titian and Piero della Francesca, amongst others. He has exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Fine Art Society. In 2006 he had a one-man retrospective exhibition at the Chambers Gallery, London, and in 2008 another at the Denise Yapp Gallery, Whitebrook, Monmouth. He has written essays on art criticism, looking at art, Lucien Freud, and Vermeer; these are available on his webpage. Publications: George Weissbort, Paintings and Drawings (Parnassus, 2008), ill. 130 colour plates; includes transcripts of a filmed interview; essays by Tony Rudolph, David Lee and Bernard Dunstan RA.

Creator:
George Weissbort (1928 - 2013, British)
Creation Year:
1969
Dimensions:
Height: 18 in (45.7 cm)Width: 21.38 in (54.3 cm)
Medium:
Board,Canvas,Oil
Period:
1960-1969
Condition:
S. & d. '69. Housed in a handmade replica French Louis XVI painted architrave frame.
Gallery Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: G13100419197