Yosl Bergner, Still Life with Lamp and Little Clown

Yosl Bergner 1920-2017

Still Life with Lamp and Little Clown

oil on canvas

45 x 55 cm

inscription on verso: Given by Yosl Bergner to Rita Henryk-Gutt

2013-19

Photo: Ben Uri Gallery

Bergner's theme was the human condition. His figurative work addresses issues of social and racial injustice and his allegorical still lifes often use toys and household objects, typically the hurricane...

Provenance

Given by Rita Henryk Gutt, on behalf of herself and her husband Witold, the son and only child of Jadwige (Wisia) Gutt (née Peiper), who died in Auschwitz late 1943 or early 1944, aged about 40. This painting is donated to the museum in her memory.

Exhibitions

2018 Out of Austria: Austrian emigre artists to the UK, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum

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