From Adler to Żuławski: A Century of Polish Artists in Britain

Alfred Wolmark (1877-1961)

Sabbath Afternoon  1909-10

Oil on canvas

91.1 x 91.2 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Alfred Wolmark estate

Alfred Wolmark (1877-1961)

The Last Days of Rabbi Ben Ezra  1905

Oil on canvas

189.6 x 322 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Alfred Wolmark estate

Enrico Glicenstein (1870-1942)

Portrait of Israel Zangwill  1923

Bronze

42 cm

Ben Uri Collection

Moshe Oved (1885-1958)

Chanukiah with Doves  c.1949

Bronze

27 x 38 x 16 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Moshe Oved estate

Henryk Gotlib (1890-1966)

Self Portrait with Pipe  c.1950-52

Oil on canvas

45.5 x 37 cm

On Loan To  Ben Uri Collection 

© Anne Dockery

Alfred Wolmark (1877-1961)

Dreamers of the Ghetto  1925

Watercolour, pen and ink

43 x 31.5 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Alfred Wolmark estate

Ralph Sallon (1899-1999)

Portrait of Herbert Morrison  n.d.

Watercolour on paper

52.5 x 40 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Ralph Sallon estate

Ernest Borough Johnson (1866-1949)

Portrait of Alfred Wolmark  c.1915-20

Watercolour and pencil on paper

53 x 38 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Ernest Borough Johnson estate

Mark Wayner (1888-1980)

Sir William Rothenstein (Celebrities in Caricature Portfolio)  c.1940

Stone lithograph on paper

35.5 x 24 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Mark Wayner estate

Leopold Pilichowski (1866-1934)

Old Man in a Blue Smock  n.d.

Oil on canvas

68.2 x 58.2 cm

Ben Uri Collection

Leopold Pilichowski (1866-1934)

Portrait of Theodore Herzl  n.d.

Oil on canvas

108.7 x 73 cm

Ben Uri Collection

Isaac Lichtenstein (1887–unknown)

The Blind Fiddler  1924

Oil on canvas

95 x 70 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Isaac Lichtenstein estate

Jankel Adler (1895-1949)

Wounded (Portrait of Man in a cap)  n.d.

Oil on paper on board

54.5 x 37 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Jankel Adler estate

Lena Pillico (1884-1947)

Cottages in the Country  1932

Oil on canvas

57 x 71 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Lena Pillico estate

Alicia Melamed-Adams (1927-)

Tears  1993

Mixed media on canvas

93 x 74 cm

Ben Uri Collection

© Alicia Melamed-Adams

Marthe Hekimi (1884-unknown)

La Grande Peur du Monde  1940-44

Oil on canvas

89 X 130.5 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Marthe Hekimi

Josef Karpf (1900-1993)

Still Life with Skull  n.d.

Oil on board

37 x 50 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Josef Karpf estate

Josef Karpf (1900-1993)

Auschwitz  1960-70

Bronze resin

20.5 x 28 x 10 cm

Loaned to Ben Uri from Private Collection 

© Josef Karpf estate

Shmuel Dresner (1928-2020)

Pages from Diary of David Rubinowicz  2005

Collage

27 x 33 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Shmuel Dresner

Roman Halter (1927-2012)

74 Chodecz and Dorset  n.d.

Watercolour and ink on paper

23 x 33 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Roman Halter

Josef Herman (1911-2000)

Refugees  c.1941

Gouache on paper

47 x 39.5 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Josef Herman estate

Josef Herman (1911-2000)

Study for ‘In Memory of the Fighters for the Warsaw Ghetto’  n.d.

Pen and ink on paper

45.7 x 40.7 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Josef Herman estate

Josef Herman (1911-2000)

Tribute to Goya's Black Pictures (In Memory for the Fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto)  1974 (reworked 1998)

Oil on canvas

119.38 x 91.4 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Josef Herman estate

George Him (1900-1981)

Israel and the World Powers  n.d.

Coloured pencil on paper

32.7 x 32.2 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© George Him estate

Adriana Swierszczek (1973-)

Abduction of Europa  2006

Pencil and charcoal on paper

110 x 132 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Adriana Swierszczek

Marek Zulawski (1908-1985)

Seated Female Nude (Susanna and the Elders)  1975

Lithograph

50 x 38.5 cm

Ben Uri Collection 

© Marek Zulawski estate

Marek Zulawski (1908-1985)

Poland First to Fight  1939

Poster

56 x 36.2 cm

Polish Library, POSK 

© Marek Zulawski estate

Teodor Axentowicz (1859-1938)

The Parting  n.d.

Pastel on paper

95.5 x 68.5 cm

The Polish Library, POSK in London

Marian Bohusz-Szyszko (1901-1995)

Winter Landscape  1947

Oil on canvas

101x75 cm

Collection of Matthew Bateson

Reproduced with permission of St Christopher's Hospice, London

Marian Bohusz-Szyszko (1901-1995)

Portrait of Cyprian Norwid  1946

Pen and ink on paper

72 x 53 cm

The Polish Library, POSK in London

Reproduced with permission of St Christopher's Hospice, London

Marian Bohusz-Szyszko (1901-1995)

Birth of Man  c.1960s

Oil on canvas

121.5 x 91 cm

POSK Art Collection, London

Reproduced with permission of St Christopher's Hospice, London

Janina Baranowska (1925-)

Portrait  1953

Oil on canvas

60 x 42 cm

Collection of Matthew Bateson

Janina Baranowska (1925-)

Crucifixion  n.d.

Oil on canvas

122 x 91.5 cm

Collection of Matthew Bateson

Tadeusz Piotr Potworowski (1898-1962)

Self Portrait  1948

Pen and ink on paper

9 x 8 cm

Private Collection, London

Feliks Topolski (1907-1989)

Old England  1943

Oil on canvas

68 x 90 cm

Collection of Matthew Bateson

Feliks Topolski (1907-1989)

Portrait of Bertrand Russell  1957

Pencil on paper

30 x 20 cm

Collection of Matthew Bateson

Zdzislaw Ruszkowski (1907-1991)

Portrait of Anna and Kasia  1954

Oil on canvas

41 x 56 cm

POSK Art Collection, London

Stanislaw Frenkiel (1918-2001)

Incantations  1993

Oil on canvas

121 x 91 cm

Private collection

Stanislaw Frenkiel (1918-2001)

Squeak’s Miraculous Escape  1973

Oil on canvas

110 x 90 cm

POSK Art Collection

Karolina Borchardt (1905-1995)

Madonna  1970

Oil on paper on board

76 x 56.5 cm

POSK Art Collection

Romek Marber (1925-2020)

Cover for Georges Simenon's The Little Man from Archangel Penguin  1964

19.8 x 12.9 cm

Ben Uri Archive

Marek Zulawski (1908-1985)

The Angler II  1960

Oil on canvas

122 x 76 cm

Private Collection

Franciszka Themerson (1907-1988) and Stefan Themerson (1910-1988)

The Table that Ran Away to the Woods  1963-2012

24 x 16.6 cm

Ben Uri Archive

© Themerson Estate

Andrzej Klimowski (1949-)

Cover illustration for Milan Kundera's The Book of Laughter and Forgetting  1982

13 x 19.7 cm

Published by Penguin

Andrzej Maria Borkowski (1949-)

Back Home  2011

Silkscreen

50 x 40 cm

Artist's collection

Andrzej Maria Borkowski (1949-)

Girl in a Crocodile Mask  2010

Screenprint

50 x 40 cm

Artist's Collection

Andrzej Krauze (1947-)

September 11 (published in The Guardian)  29 September 2001

Indian ink and watercolour on paper

21 x 29.7 cm

Artist's Collection

Andrzej Krauze (1947-)

Untitled  (Published in The Guardian)  10 May 2003

Indian ink and watercolour on paper

21 x 29.7 cm

Artist's Collection

Stanislaw Slawomir Blatton (1943-)

Untitled  2016

Pen and ink on paper

10 x 6 cm

Collection of Matthew Bateson

Joanna Ciechanowska (1950-)

Boris Johnson  2013

Digital drawing

29.7 x 21 cm

Artist's collection

Maciej Jedrzejewski (1993-)

Home Sweet Home  2016

Video installation

Artist's Collection

Running time: 8 minutes 33 seconds

Courtesy of the artist

Magda Blasinska (1983-)

Stalin's Revenge  2017

Acrylic on linen

120 x 100 cm

Artist's Collection

Magda Blasinska (1983-)

Ground I  2017

Cotton ticking

49 x 43 cm

Artist's Collection

Magda Skupinska (1991-)

Sundown  2017

Chilli and turmeric on canvas

25 x 25 cm

Private Collection