Alva, Exodus, 1938

Alva 1901-1973

Exodus, 1938

oil on canvas

69.8 x 90 cm

signed (lower left): Alva

1996-8

Photo: Ben Uri Gallery and Museum

When Alva painted this work he was experiencing his own exodus. Made in the year before the outbreak of the Second World War, this symbolic painting references both the ancient...

Provenance

loan from Mr and Mrs M. Alweiss July 1996

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