Segal studied art in Berlin and Munich, and exhibited with the Berlin Secession. He lived in Ascona, Switzerland from 1914 to 1920, where he began his friendship with Jawlensky and first met Galka Scheyer. Fear of the Nazis forced his emigration to Spain in 1933; civil war there led him to England, where he stayed until his death in 1944. This painting is typical of Segal's "Equivalence" pictures, wherein he subdivides the canvas in an effort to combat an arbitrary elaboration of form and give the entire composition equal intensity.
Details
- Artist Name: Arthur Segal (Romanian, 1875-1944)
- Title: Adam and Eve
- Date: 1918
- Medium: Oil on burlap
- Dimensions: 15-5/8 x 19-3/4 in. (39.7 x 50.2 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Museum, The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection
- Accession Number: P.1953.311
Object Information
Galka Scheyer;
Pasadena Art Institute, Pasadena, 1953-1954;
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena,1954-1975;
Norton Simon Museum, 1975.
Expressionists
- Los Angeles, Hollywood Gallery of Modern Art (Lorser Feitelson), 1935 to ?-
Thirty European Modernists
- Oakland Art Gallery, 1928-01-04 to 1928-01-29
European Modernists
- Los Angeles, California School of Fine Arts, 1927-04 to ?-
The Blue Four-Galka Scheyer Collection From The Norton Simon Museum
- Henry Art Gallery, 1997-07-17 to 1997-10-05
From Europe to California: Galka Scheyer and the Avant-Garde
- Norton Simon Museum, 2003-05-16 to 2003-10-13
The Spirit of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in the New World
- Norton Simon Museum, 1994-11-17 to 1996-01-14
- The Blue Four Galka Scheyer Collection, Norton Simon Museum of Art at Pasadena, 1976, no. 446 p. 158
- Herzogenrath, Wulf and Pavel Liska, Arthur Segal 1875-1944, 1987, no. 176
- Barnett, Vivian Endicott, The Blue Four Collection at the Norton Simon Museum, 2002, no. 420 pp. 422-423
- Sandqvist, Tom, Dada Öst, Rumänera på Cabaret Voltaire, 2005, p. 172
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