Materials and techniques

Edith Birkin 1927-2018

Liberation Day, 1987

acrylic on canvas

69.1 x 52.2 cm
Framed 77.5 x 60.8 cm

signed and dated (lower right): E. Hofmann 1989

1989-1

Photo: Bridgeman images

Holocaust survivor Edith Birkin has said of her painting: 'I evolved a pictorial language that enabled me to put my visions on canvas. It wasn't so much the cruelty or...

Provenance

presented by the artist 1989

Exhibitions

1989 Memories of the Holocaust: Edith Birkin (Hofmann), Ben Uri Art Society

2018 Liberators: Extraordinary women artists from the Ben Uri Collection, Ben Uri Gallery

Literature

Oil Paintings in Public Ownership in Camden (London: The Public Catalogue Foundation, 2013), p.7 (illus. included);
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. 117.

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