Emancipation
The work is part of the symbolic language used by some avant-garde artists in the post-World War I period, concerned with major changes in society and seeing in their works a utopian transformation of it.
Elefánt Jenő
Emantipatio
colored pencils, paper, 47.7 x 23.8 cm
- Signed at the bottom right:
Elephant
- titled at the bottom left on the passe-partout with pencil:
Emancipatio
- on the back:
1. no. registration Gallery Quadro: 2881
2. stamp DJC Cluj
- Condition of the work:
on the left side there is a long vertical stripe caused by bending
- Documents:
- expert report Sebestyén Székely from 16.03.2017
- Certificate of sale of the Quadro Gallery, the cultural asset appearing at no. 2881, dated 11/18/2016
Elefánt Jenő
Oradea, 1899 - Mauthausen, 1945
He was born under the star of David, making him a target for the Nazis.
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