Edith Birkin 1927-2018
Liberation Day, 1987
acrylic on canvas
69.1 x 52.2 cm
Framed 77.5 x 60.8 cm
Framed 77.5 x 60.8 cm
signed and dated (lower right): E. Hofmann 1989
1989-1
© Edith Birkin estate
Photo: Bridgeman images
Holocaust survivor Edith Birkin has said of her painting: 'I evolved a pictorial language that enabled me to put my visions on canvas. It wasn't so much the cruelty or...
Holocaust survivor Edith Birkin has said of her painting: 'I evolved a pictorial language that enabled me to put my visions on canvas. It wasn't so much the cruelty or physical suffering that I wanted to record. Most of all, I wanted to show what it felt like to be a human being, in the starved, emaciated strange-looking body, forever being separated from loved ones.'
Provenance
presented by the artist 1989Exhibitions
1989 Memories of the Holocaust: Edith Birkin (Hofmann), Ben Uri Art Society
2018 Liberators: Extraordinary women artists from the Ben Uri Collection, Ben Uri Gallery
Literature
Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Camden (London: The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2013), p.7 (illus. included);Walter Schwab 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. 117.
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