GEORG EHRLICH (AUSTRIAN 1897-1966) §
PORTRAIT OF GILLIAN RAFFLES (NÉE POSNANSKY) AS A YOUNG LADY, c. 1944
£2,016
Auction: The Gillian Raffles Collection Evening - Lots 1 to 73 - Thursday 01 May at 18:00
Description
signed G. EHRLICH, bronze on marble base
Dimensions
bronze: 30cm high (11 ¾in high); overall: 42cm high (16 ½in high)
Provenance
The Collection of Gillian Raffles.
Footnote
This bust portrays Gillian Raffles at approximately 14 years old and was commissioned by her father, Jack E. Posnansky. A dedicated art collector and patron of the Jewish émigré cultural community of the time, Posnansky also served on the Ben Uri council from 1952 to 1968.
A bust of Miss Gillian Posnansky by Georg Ehrlich was documented as being exhibited at the Royal Academy in May - August 1944 (probably this example), with a stone version also held in the collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, received as a gift from J. E. Posnansky, alongside a bronze sculpture Portrait of a Young Italian Woman.
See Erica Tietze-Conrat, Georg Ehrlich, B. T. Batsford, London, 1956, p. 23 for the reference of a sculpture of Miss Gillian Posnansky being exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1944.