Josef Karpf, Still Life with Skull

Josef Karpf 1900-1993

Still Life with Skull

oil on board

37 x 50

1994-13

@Josef Karpf estate

Photo: Bridgeman images

Still Life with Skull is a powerful memento mori, in which Karpf acknowledges the personal trauma suffered by his wife and the tragic fate of millions of Jews during the...

Provenance

presented by Mrs N. Karpf, the artist's widow, 1994

Literature

Rachel Dickson ed., From Adler to Zuławski: A Century of Polish Artists in Britain (London: Ben Uri Research Unit, 2020) p. 63.; 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. 130.

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