Why does this show the audience rather than the play? The great British art quiz

Ghetto Theatre, 1920, David Bomberg. Photograph: © the estate of David Bomberg. All rights reserved, DACS 2020/Ben Uri Collection

This quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home for the UK’s public art collections, showing art from more than 3,000 venues and by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK will set the questions.

Today our questions are set by the Ben Uri Collection, the most comprehensive collection of works by late 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century Jewish artists – and widened, since 2001, to include immigrant artists to the UK from all national, ethnic, and religious origins. The Ben Uri Research Unit, based in north London, is recording this contribution to British visual culture since 1900 in a new digital database.

You can see art from the the collection on Art UK here. Find out more on the Ben Uri website here.

1. 

   Artist Lily Delissa Joseph was one of the first women to drive a car and to fly a plane in England. For what reason did she miss one of her own private views?

   1. She was playing in a chamber music recital at the Wigmore Hall

   2. She was invited to the Royal Enclosure at Ascot

   3. She was imprisoned for suffragist activities in London's Holloway prison

   4. She was attending the unveiling of a building by her architect husband

2. 

   David Bomberg is considered one of the "Whitechapel boys". The interior of which London theatre is represented in this painting?

   1. Theatre Royal, Haymarket

   2. Royal Court theatre

   3. Pavilion Yiddish theatre

   4. Adelphi Theatre

3. 

   Artist Chaïm Soutine died in Paris in 1943 after a failed operation for what?

   1. Appendicitis

   2. Stomach ulcers

   3. Leg wound

   4. Kidney stones

4. 

   Which Jewish ceremony is being depicted in this painting by Emmanuel Levy?

   1. Passover

   2. Simchat Torah

   3. Yom Kippur

   4. Sitting Shiva

5. 

   Eva Frankfurther’s painting captures her friends and co-workers at which famous British restaurant?

   1. ABC Café

   2. Fortnum and Mason

   3. Lyon’s Corner House

   4. Patisserie Valerie

6. 

   What long-running BBC Radio 4 programme could be associated with the place named in the title of this painting?

   1. The Today Programme

   2. The Archers

   3. Desert Island Discs

   4. I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue

7. 

   Which animated film did artist Tam Joseph work on?

   1. Frozen

   2. Yellow Submarine

   3. Shrek

   4. Kung Fu Panda

8. 

   Mark Gertler made this work in the East End on the eve of the first world war. Which London tailor now occupies his former Spitalfields studio?

   1. Richard James

   2. Timothy Everest

   3. Ozwald Boateng

   4. Paul Smith

Solutions

1:C - Lily Delissa Joseph, the younger sister of artist Solomon J Solomon, trained at the Royal Academy, exhibiting with the RA, the Society of Women Artists, and the New English Art Club. She married the architect Delissa Joseph. She missed her own private view at the Baillie Gallery, London, in 1912 after being detained at Holloway prison "on a charge in connection with [the] women's suffrage movement". Image: Self Portrait with Candles, c1910, Lily Delissa Joseph (1863-1940). Credit: Ben Uri Collection., 2:C - Ghetto Theatre is set in Whitechapel’s lively Pavilion theatre, where the classics were performed in Yiddish. In contrast to David Bomberg’s animated prewar theatre studies, however, the painting captures his personal disenchantment following his traumatic experiences at the front during the first world war. Image: Ghetto Theatre, 1920, David Bomberg (1890-1957) © the estate of David Bomberg. All rights reserved, DACS 2020. Credit: Ben Uri Collection. , 3:B - Eastern-European Jewish émigré Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943) became a prominent member of the École de Paris alongside Marc Chagall in Montparnasse. After the German occupation of Paris, he sought refuge in Touraine, but in 1943, suffering from a rapid decline in health, returned to Paris and died following an operation for perforated stomach ulcers. Image: La Soubrette (Waiting Maid), c1933, Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943) © the copyright holder. Credit: Ben Uri Collection. , 4:B - Emmanuel Levy uses a pared-back modern style and bold patterning to capture the joyous spirit of the Jewish festival of Simchat Torah when the complete reading of the Torah for the year is marked and celebrated before the readings begin again. Image: Two Rabbis Carrying the Scrolls of the Law, c1943, Emmanuel Levy (1900-86) © the copyright holder. Credit: Ben Uri Collection. , 5:C - After graduating from Saint Martin's School of Art in 1951, German-Jewish émigré Eva Frankfurther earned her living working the evening shift as a counter-hand at Lyons Corner House, in Piccadilly, where she found her subject matter among the ethnically diverse, largely immigrant population, particularly the new West Indian Windrush community, who formed her friends and co-workers. Image: West Indian Waitresses, c1955, Eva Franfurther (1930-59) © the artist's estate. Credit: Ben Uri Collection. , 6:D - Radio 4’s long-running quiz includes the celebrated "non-game" of Mornington Crescent. This vibrant landscape is one of a number by Frank Auerbach (b1931) depicting the area in London's Camden Town, where he has lived and worked in a studio since 1954. Image: Mornington Crescent – Summer Morning II, 2004, Frank Helmuth Auerbach (b1931) © the artist. Credit: Ben Uri Collection. , 7:B - Tam Joseph was born in Dominica and migrated to England in 1955. After graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art, he worked on the animated film featuring the Beatles. Afterwards, he travelled extensively in Europe, the far east and Africa. His Hand Made Map of the World playfully reorders conventional geographies. Image: Hand Made Map of the World, Tam Joseph (b1947) © the artist. Credit: Ben Uri Collection., 8:B - Gertler was born in a slum lodging house in Spitalfields, in the heart of the East End’s Jewish quarter, the setting for much of his early work. His Elder Street studio, marked by a blue plaque, is now home to the atelier of tailor Timothy Everest. Image: Rabbi and Rabbitzin, 1914, Mark Gertler (1891-1939). Credit: Ben Uri Collection.

Scores

1. 8 and above.

   A brush with greatness!

2. 7 and above.

   A great impression!

3. 6 and above.

   A good impression

4. 5 and above.

   A good impression

5. 4 and above.

   A decent impression

6. 3 and above.

   Better start brushing up

7. 2 and above.

   Better start brushing up

8. 0 and above.

   Better start brushing up

9. 1 and above.

   Better start brushing up