Ansel Krut b. 1959
                                The Paschal Lamb
                            
                                    oil on board
34 x 26
2012-1993-58
                                    
                                            @Ansel Krut
                                        
                                        
                                            Photo: Bridgeman images
                                        
                                
                                   The sacrificial or Paschal lamb was traditionally slaughtered on the eve of Passover and eaten on the first night of the Jewish Passover holiday with bitter herbs and matzo. This...
                        
                    
                                                    The sacrificial or Paschal lamb was traditionally slaughtered on the eve of Passover and eaten on the first night of the Jewish Passover holiday with bitter herbs and matzo. This work relates to the artist's earlier more classical style, which has gradually become 'more anarchic', ostensibly playful, but concealing complex messages. Krut's occasionally sinister subject matter has sometimes been linked to his upbringing in South Africa during the Apartheid era.
                    
                    
                Provenance
presented 1993Literature
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. 135.Be the first to know – Sign Up
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