Pearl COHEN
1908 - 1976
Paintings
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.
„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
Additional works on this link or click on image below!
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