Josef Karpf 1900-1993
Still Life with Skull
oil on board
37 x 50
1994-13
@Josef Karpf estate
Photo: Bridgeman images
Still Life with Skull is a powerful memento mori, in which Karpf acknowledges the personal trauma suffered by his wife and the tragic fate of millions of Jews during the...
Still Life with Skull is a powerful memento mori, in which Karpf acknowledges the personal trauma suffered by his wife and the tragic fate of millions of Jews during the Holocaust.
Provenance
presented by Mrs N. Karpf, the artist's widow, 1994Literature
Rachel Dickson ed., From Adler to Zuławski: A Century of Polish Artists in Britain (London: Ben Uri Research Unit, 2020) p. 63.; 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. 130.Related artists
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