Pearl COHEN

1908 - 1976

Paintings


Pearl COHEN in front of her paintings, 1970

Pearl Cohen in 1970

 

 

Brief Curriculum

Born in London in 1908, Pearl Cohen studied under Barry Craig at the Michaelis School of Art, Cape Town, then the Witwatersrand Technical College, Johannesburg and later at the Byam Shaw School of Art, London. After her return to Johannesburg, she studied further under Anna Vorster, Sidney Goldblatt and Lionel Abrams.

 

 

Solo shows

Adler Fielding Galleries Johannesburg – 1965 (opened by Sylvia Nell on 26th January) – 2nd solo show

Adler Fielding Galleries Johannesburg – 1967 (opened 23rd May) – 3rd solo show

Gallery 101, Rand Central, Johannesburg – 1970 (opened by Jim Stodel on 1st April) – 4th solo show

 

 

 

Group shows

Gallery 101, Rand Central, Johannesburg (joint show with Sylvia Freedman) - 5th February, 1962

Whippman’s Gallery, Johannesburg (Transvaal Art Society Members Only Exhibition) – 11th July, 1962

"ART South Africa To-day 1963" - Durban Art Gallery - 30th July - 18th August, 1963

Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg (“24 Women Artists”) - 27th August, 1963

Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg ("Horses") - 6th November, 1963, cat. 22, 22a

Transvaal Academy 1964 (Johannesburg Art Gallery), cat. 20

Transvaal Academy 1965 (Johannesburg Art Gallery), cat. 18

Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg (“South African Painters Past and Present”) – 31st August, 1965

Republic Festival Exhibition Pretoria 1966 – SA Association of Arts, Pretoria

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Adler Fielding Galleries, Johannesburg (“Artists of Fame & Promise”):

1960 – cat. 21, 22    1961 – cat. 9    1962 – cat. 25    1963 – cat. 15    1964 – cat. 31

 

 

Museum and public collections

Durban Art Gallery, Durban (1963) - 1 work

Transvaal Provincial Library, Pretoria (1963/64)

 

 

Publications

“South African Artists 1900-1962” (Harold Jeppe) (Afrikaanse Pers-Boekhandel) (1963), p. 21

“Republic Festival May 1966” (SA Association of Arts, Pretoria), cat. 67

ARTLOOK 7 Johannesburg 1967 (June) p. 13, ill.

 

Pearl COHEN „African Women III“ pre-1970 49x69cm ill. in ARTLOOK 40 Johannesburg March 1970, p.24

„African Women III“ pre-1970 – 49x69 cm – illustrated in ARTLOOK 40 Johannesburg March 1970, p. 24 (click on image for further works)

 

ARTLOOK 40 Johannesburg 1970 (March) pp. 24/25, 4 ill.

“Art & Artists of South Africa” (Berman) (Balkema) (1983), pp. 516, 521

„The Dictionary of South African Painters and Sculptors including Namibia“ (Ogilvie / Graff) (Everard Read), 1988 – ISBN 0 620 12663 9 – listed on p. 137

 

 

Selected works

Pearl COHEN "Landscape", 1970 - oil painting ill. in ARTLOOK 40 March 1970 p.25

Pearl Cohen "Landscape", 1970

Additional works on this link or click on image below!

Pearl COHEN "Mosque, Malay Quarter, Cape Town"

Pearl Cohen "Mosque, Malay Quarter, Cape Town"

 

 

Newspaper reviews

Die Vaderland, Johannesburg – 21st January, 1965

Transvaler, Johannesburg – 29th January, 1965

The Star, Johannesburg – 23rd December, 1964; 25th January, 1965; 27th January, 1965

Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg – 28th January, 1965 (ill.); 1st February, 1965

Die Vaderland, Johannesburg – 8th February, 1965

Zionist Record, Johannesburg – 12th February, 1965 (ill.)

The Star, Johannesburg – 24th May, 1967

Rand Daily Mail, Johannesburg – 26th May, 1967

Die Vaderland, Johannesburg – 26th May, 1967

SA Financial Gazette, Johannesburg – 2nd June, 1967

Sunday Express, Johannesburg – 4th June, 1967

Die Vaderland, Johannesburg – 8th April, 1970

The Star, Johannesburg – 31st March, 1970; 8th April, 1970

 

 

Works sold on auction

Researching over the past few years, only once was Pearl Cohen's work offered on auction in South Africa:

Cannon & Cannon, Hilton KZN - 2009 Lot 297

 

 

Note:

(Pearl Cohen died in Johannesburg on 28th February, 1976; her only child, Ruth Shapiro née Cohen, has been living in Sydney since 1988)

 

Updated 2nd August, 2012

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