A rare modernist mosaic by Boris Anrep | With Lawrence Hendra

This exceptional work was created by the avant-garde mosaicist and artist, Boris Anrep. It was acquired soon after by the artist Augustus John, who set it into the wall of his house in Chelsea, where it remained until 1970. It is the only example of Anrep’s work to appear on the secondary market since his death and has not been exhibited in public since it was shown in Anrep’s first solo exhibition in 1913.
Boris Vasilyevich Anrep
Spirit of Reasoning (1889-1950), c. 1913
Mosaic
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[@lorrainegatzke1048]

Absolutely beautiful ❤

[@kathryn1050]

Exquisite!

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I find it beautiful!

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Boris Anrep's mosaic in the entrance to the NG shows Greta Garbo among the others portrayed.

[@soloauditor]

My reality.... just because this work is rare, the only one existing this do not make it beautiful. far from it. It is just unique piece of mosaic work and that makes it ''valuable''. I ask a question: if this would be reproduced thousands of times what would be its value? None because beside being rare this work does not emanates beauty. A blade of grass and a dangling a dewdrop from its tip emanates beauty but this work contains none of this energy. Beauty is a vibrating energy which is alive.