Image: Ben Uri Gallery, London
Ben Uri Gallery has listed Moshe Maurer’s 'Spring Landscape' for sale, offering the oil on board for £500 through its donated art sales page. The work is described as measuring 57 x 60.5 cm, and the gallery says interested buyers can email donatedartsales@benuri.org to acquire or inquire about the painting.
The sale is presented not as a conventional commercial listing but as a way to benefit Ben Uri’s research work. In the gallery’s newsletter, the artwork appears alongside a direct invitation to offer similar art for sale “to benefit our important research,” with inquiries directed to admin@benuri.org under the subject line “Gift Offer of Art.” The posting does not specify a venue for a display or event, only that the painting is available to buy through Ben Uri.
Ben Uri’s own institutional materials frame the organisation’s current mission around research and collection work focused on the Jewish, refugee and immigrant contribution to British visual culture since 1900. On its Research Unit pages, the institution says that its aim is to centralise research and digitally record that contribution through Buru.org.uk, Diaspora-artists.net and related resources, and it describes the Research Unit as a principal outcome of its ongoing work. The page also notes that the database now contains over 3,000 profiles from more than 100 countries of birth.
That context helps explain why the gallery’s sales notices are tied to fundraising for research rather than simply stock management. The same newsletter that carries 'Spring Landscape' also points readers to the Ben Uri Research Unit and to the wider collection and online resources, presenting the sale as part of a broader program of scholarship, exhibitions, publications and digital access. The gallery’s materials do not identify any special provenance or exhibition history for Maurer’s painting in the announcement.
The listing is concise, but it places Moshe Maurer within Ben Uri’s larger network of artists and works associated with the institution. Maurer, identified in the sale notice as Moshe Maurer (1891-1971), is named only in connection with the landscape painting and its availability. No further biographical detail about the artist is supplied in the source material, and none is added here.
Ben Uri’s newsletter also emphasises that the gallery is open Wednesday to Friday from 10am to 5:30pm at its St John’s Wood address, 108a Boundary Road, London NW8 0RH, and it continues to promote its online exhibitions, essays, podcasts and collection pages. Within that wider framework, 'Spring Landscape' is offered as a straightforward acquisition opportunity, with a set price and a direct contact address for anyone wishing to support the gallery’s research work through an art purchase.
