Lot 153

Work in good condition with no faults to report. Framed, with overall size: 133.5 x 103cm
LEONARD JOEL DELIVERY SIZE: LARGE


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Gift of the artist
The collection of the Jewish Holocaust Centre (the following painting is being auctioned to raise funds for the above)

Artist's statement:
"These images are the result of when I was a teenager seeing concentration camp newsreels at the old Wynward Newsreel Theatre, Sydney, in 1945-46. Secondly they arise from having lived in Bucharest for 4 years from 1951-55, where at the art institute I was befriended not only by Romanians who had terrible stories to recount - but also by Jewish Romanians and Hungarians, who had somehow survived the horrors of the Fascist Iron Guards."

Spring:"The time of new growth, upthrusting optimism, luminous landscape, of vigorous dancing, high kicking and leaping - parts of dismembered human figure played - the Nazis made lampshades of human skins"