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The Times (London)
August 7, 2004, Saturday
Bridget Riley' first solo show
by: Joanna Pitman
Ida Kar made some of the most brilliant artist portraits of the
Sixties.
This contact sheet of her session with the then 31-year-old Bridget
Riley, taken in 1962, is among her best.
Riley had been invited by Victor Musgrave, Kar's husband, to do her
first solo show at his gallery, Gallery One. Monica Kinley,
Musgrave's second wife, recalls how ahead of its time the work was.
"Victor gave Bridget Riley her first really serious show. Her work
was extremely challenging and avant-garde in those days and Victor
found it very interesting. Victor was very good at picking artists
with potential to show in his gallery. Many of them were at the start
of long and important careers."
Born Ida Karamian of Armenian parents in Tambov, near Moscow, in
1908, Kar was educated at French lycees in Cairo and Paris. She took
up photography with her first husband, Edmond Belali, and worked in
Cairo as a surrealist photographer under the name Idabel. She met
Victor Musgrave in Cairo and moved to London in 1945. She lived and
worked in Soho, photographing London's bohemia, including every new
and important writer and artist from Doris Lessing to T.S. Eliot,
from David Hockney to Margot Fonteyn. She had a solo show at the
Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1960, in which she showed large prints of
French and British artists. She died in 1974.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
August 7, 2004, Saturday
Bridget Riley' first solo show
by: Joanna Pitman
Ida Kar made some of the most brilliant artist portraits of the
Sixties.
This contact sheet of her session with the then 31-year-old Bridget
Riley, taken in 1962, is among her best.
Riley had been invited by Victor Musgrave, Kar's husband, to do her
first solo show at his gallery, Gallery One. Monica Kinley,
Musgrave's second wife, recalls how ahead of its time the work was.
"Victor gave Bridget Riley her first really serious show. Her work
was extremely challenging and avant-garde in those days and Victor
found it very interesting. Victor was very good at picking artists
with potential to show in his gallery. Many of them were at the start
of long and important careers."
Born Ida Karamian of Armenian parents in Tambov, near Moscow, in
1908, Kar was educated at French lycees in Cairo and Paris. She took
up photography with her first husband, Edmond Belali, and worked in
Cairo as a surrealist photographer under the name Idabel. She met
Victor Musgrave in Cairo and moved to London in 1945. She lived and
worked in Soho, photographing London's bohemia, including every new
and important writer and artist from Doris Lessing to T.S. Eliot,
from David Hockney to Margot Fonteyn. She had a solo show at the
Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1960, in which she showed large prints of
French and British artists. She died in 1974.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress