Phineas Leopold May 1906-1995

'Poor chap, he's never been the same since'

pencil, pen and ink on paper

22.8 x 29.2 cm

signed (upper left): P. L. May

1987-279b-ix

Photo: Ben Uri Gallery

May's witty caricature depicts two well-dressed businessmen and a rabbi (in a typical biretta-style hat), discussing the 'poor chap', who has irreversibly changed after a visit to an exhibition of...

Provenance

presented by the artist 1987

Exhibitions

2023 The Second World War on the Home Front (supporting A Brush with Evil II: Laura Knight at the Nuremberg Trial), Ben Uri Gallery

Literature

Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 77.

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