Comprising a collection of paintings, sculptures and other objects acquired by Jane and Richard Reynolds, often from young artists from the 1960’s onwards.

96.08 Virgin of Tenderness

96.08 Virgin of Tenderness

 

English

Catalogue number 96.08 

A 1980’s copy by Bulgarian artist Tzvetan Gruev of a religious icon, painted in egg tempera on wood. Signed on the back. 74 cm. high by 52 cm. wide with rounded corners. 

 In the 1990’s I was associated with a business venture in Bulgaria, and I was given this copy of a sixteenth century eastern orthodox church icon by the then Bulgarian Ambassador in London. One of the more imaginative corporate gifts! It is an Eleusa (Greek for tenderness) icon which is a depiction of the Virgin Mary in which the infant Jesus Christ is nestled against her cheek, showing a bond of tenderness between mother and child.  The gold background is symbolic of the heavenly world, the inscriptions on the right of the main figures are the common ones used by icon painters for the Theotokos (Virgin Mary), upper, and Mary, lower. 

 

Spanish

Virgen de la ternura

Número de catálogo 96.08 

Una copia de 1980 del artista búlgaro Tzvetan Gruev de un icono religioso, pintado al temple de huevo sobre madera. Firmado en el reverso. Mide 74 cm de alto por 52 cm de ancho, con esquinas redondeadas. 

En la década de 1990 estuve asociado con una empresa comercial en Bulgaria, y el entonces embajador búlgaro en Londres me regaló esta copia de un icono de la iglesia ortodoxa oriental del siglo XVI. ¡Uno de los regalos corporativos más imaginativos! Es un icono de Eleusa (palabra griega que significa ternura) que es una representación de la Virgen María en la que el niño Jesucristo está acurrucado contra su mejilla, mostrando un vínculo de ternura entre madre e hijo. El fondo dorado es simbólico del mundo celestial, las inscripciones a la derecha de las figuras principales son las más utilizadas por los pintores de iconos para el Theotokos (Virgen María), superior, y María, inferior. 

 
05.05 Bottom startled

05.05 Bottom startled

95.12 A Mother reading to her daughter

95.12 A Mother reading to her daughter