Yehuda Bacon, Variations on a Theme (10 coloured etchings), 1957

Yehuda Bacon b. 1929

Variations on a Theme (10 coloured etchings), 1957

coloured etchings on paper

24.6 x 10.1 cm each print

1987-21

Photo: Bridgeman Images

Much of Bacon’s work deals with the horrors he witnessed during the Holocaust, whereas 'Variations on a Theme' possesses an air of uncharacteristic optimism and is a celebration of form...

Provenance

presented by Dr Israel Feldman 1957

Exhibitions

2009 Homeless & Hidden 2: World Class Collection Homeless & Hidden, Ben Uri Gallery

2019 Czech Routes: Selected Czechoslovakian Artists in Britain, Ben Uri Gallery

Literature

Nicola Baird ed., Czech Routes: Selected Czechoslovak Artists in Britain from the Ben Uri and Private Collections (London: Ben Uri Gallery, 2019);
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. 23.

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