L. Michèle Franklin, Banished, 1985

L. Michèle Franklin b. 1958

Banished, 1985

watercolour on paper

64.5 x 46 cm

Signed (lower left): L. Michele Franklin; (lower centre): Banished; dated, (lower right): 1985

1987-104

The anguished pose of the retreating couple in Franklin's expressive double-figure study is reminiscent of Masaccio’s fresco of Adam and Eve’s Expulsion from the Garden of Eden (c. 1424-8) in...

Provenance

purchased with the assistance of Alexander Margulies 1985

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. 45.

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