Self-Portrait

by Simeon Solomon

Provenance

Sold by Jeremy Mass, London, to the Art Institute, 1987.

Inscriptions

Signed with symbol, lower right, in graphite; inscribed lower right, in graphite: "19/10 / 60"

Exhibition history

New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 44; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992. Chicago, The Jewish Museum, "From Prodigy to Outcast: Simeon Solomon Pre-Raphaelite Artist," February 2001. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Building a Collection: New Acquisitions and Promised Gifts of British Art," May 1–August 1, 2004, cat. 23 (ill).

Publications

Debra N. Mancoff, “As Others Saw Him: A Self-Portrait by Simeon Solomon,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 18, 2 (1992), pp. 146-155, fig. 1. Martha Tedeschi, “Forward,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 18, 2 (1992), pp. 108-111, fig. 4.