Virtual Catalogue Raisonné

The Rose of Seville, #65, 1919

HP00104

The Rose of Seville, No. 65

Date of Work: 1919

Medium: Oil on panel over canvas

Size: 36x25

Provenance: Purchased from Branson Museum, MO.; Roughton Galleries, Inc.; private collection, Dallas

Notes: “The Rose of Seville, #65" was painted by Hovsep Pushman, in 1919. It is included in the Pushman inventory journal, #65. The painting is signed, lower right, and is housed in an original, Pushman designed frame. Hovsep Pushman began his career as a portrait painter. His initial exhibitions were of exquisite works like “A Spanish Rose. Author Harold BellWright wrote this wonderful poem to describe a very similar work title “The Armenian Girl” in 1919 What wondrous magic hath this brush of thine, Thou painter of the truth that doth so deep Beneath the surface of our being lie. What colors these that thou dost make to voice? In Loveliness so rare the mystic call Of verities that live so close to God. From whom hast thou the cunning thus to catch, With net of pigments on the palette set, This potent beauty that so shyly lurks In the sweet wilderness of this fair flesh? ….I look into those eyes: deep wells they are Of that eternal mystery which God Doth ever hide in lovely womanhood, And, hiding thus, doth still reveal; and from The deepest depth of this that is myself… Goes forth a something that is more than love- ……Find, if thou canst, my artist-friend, in these Rude and halting words of mine a token Of my love for thee and tribute to a Master I would serve gladly and with pride. "Mission Inn" Feb. 1919 Harold Bell Wright