Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering The Early Years, 1945-59

Gustav Metzger’s palette, c. 1940s

Oil on board

28 x 38cm. 

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Head of a Girl, c. 1948-49

Charcoal on paper

56 x 46cm. 

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Head of a Man, 1948-49, 

Pencil on paper

39 x 30cm. 

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Head of a Man, 1948-49

Pencil on paper

34 x 28cm. 

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Head of a Man, c. 1951-53

Oil on board

50.7 x 41.5cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Head of a Man, c. 1951-1953

Oil on board

50.6 x 40cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Head, c. 1950-53, 

Oil on board

26 x 17cm. 

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Head of a Man, c. 1952

Chalk on paper

86 x 64cm. 

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Head of E Royalton-Kisch, 1950

Oil on canvas, 69.4 x 62.2cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger 

Head, 1948,

Oil on canvas, 51.5 x 47.3cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Antwerp model, 1949

Oil on canvas, 92 x 70.5cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Untitled, c. 1945-47

Oil on board, 102 x 76cm. 

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Untitled, c.1945-47

Oil on board

121 x 47cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Seated Woman, c. 1945-47 

Oil on board, 91 x 43cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Self-Portrait, An Undefiled, 1946

Oil on canvas

91 x 56cm. 

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger, 

Head of Cliff Holden, 1946

Oil on board

123 x 90 cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Eroica, Funeral March, 1946

Oil on board

92 x 151cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Girl at Hunstanton(later titled Girl at Bus Window: Autumn 1956), 1957

Oil on canvas

127 x 85 cm. 

The Gustav Metzger Foundation.

Gustav Metzger

Table, 1956

Oil on canvas

35.5 x 30cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Table, 1956

Oil on canvas

30 x 25cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Table, 1956

Coloured chalk on paper

56 x 46cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Table, 1956

Coloured chalk on paper

46 x 46cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Painting on Cardboard

Oil on found kodak box, c. 1961-62

68.4 x 59.4cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Painting on Cardboard

Oil on found Kodak box, c.1961-62

70 x 100cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation.

Gustav Metzger

Painting, c. 1958-60

Oil on board

22 x 28cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Painting, c. 1957-58

Oil on board, 35 x 28cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Composition, c.1950- 1953

Charcoal and coloured chalk on paper

28.5 x 38cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Radcliffe Camera, Oxford, 1950

Ink on paper

25.2 x 29.5cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Antwerp, 1949

Ink on paper

18 x 23cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Antwerp, 1949

Ink on paper, 18 x 23cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

David Bomberg

Benchers Hall, Inner Temple,1947

Charcoal on paper

47 x 60cm.

Ben Uri Collection

Presented from a Private Collection 2015

Gustav Metzger

Building, c. 1949-53

Oil on canvas

43 x 40cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Gustav Metzger

Portrait, c. 1949-50

Oil on board

84.5 x 56.4cm.

The Gustav Metzger Foundation

Jacob Epstein

Lydia, 1931

Bronze

48 x 40 x 20 cm.

Ben Uri Collection

Bequest of Ethel Solomon

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska

Sculptural Head of Brodzky, c. 1913,

Black chalk on paper

48 x 36cm.

Ben Uri Collection

Purchased at Christie’s London in March 2018 through the support of three great friends of Manya Igel in her honour

Frank Auerbach

Head of Helen Gillespie, c. 1962-64

Oil on board

41 x 41cm.

Ben Uri Collection

On long loan to the Ben Uri Collection from Richard and Julia Anson

Kurt Schwitters

für Frau Fränkel,1927

Collage

40 x 34cm

Ben Uri Collection

Purchased from the family of Else Fraenkel 2019

Leon Kossoff

Portrait of N.M Seedo, c. 1957

Charcoal on paper

109 x 77cm.

Ben Uri Collection

David Bomberg

Portrait of John Rodker, c.1931

Oil on canvas

71.5 x 57cm.

Ben Uri Collection

Presented by Joan Rodker 2008