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Auction 81 - The Wily Lindwer Collection
Stone Sculpture – Monument to Victims of the Holocaust – From the Cyprus Detention Camps
Opening: $1,800
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Stone sculpture – miniature headstone – made by a Holocaust survivor in a Cyprus detention camp. Cyprus, [ca. 1946-49].
Gypsum rock, chiseled and engraved.
Sculpture of a headstone, supported on a six-step pedestal. Two vertical columns, surmounted by rectangular horizontal cornice, in turn surmounted by arch. Inscribed (Hebrew) on cornice: "To the eternal memory [and] in honor of the members of my family who were murdered by the loathsome Nazis." Inscribed (Hebrew) on the arch: "Remember what Amalek did unto you" (paraphrasing of Deuteronomy 25:17). Underneath the arch is a relief of the Two Tablets of the Law. Headstone with high relief depicting a woman in mourning and prayer and a weeping willow. Inscribed in Hebrew between the left column and the willow are the names of the sculptor's family members who perished in the Holocaust.
Height: 16 cm. Width: 20 cm. Depth: 12 cm. Fractures, professionally restored.
Reference: Gideon Ofrat and Galia Bar Or, "The First Decade: A Hegemony and a Plurality," exhibition catalogue, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, 2008, p. 131 (photographed).
Gypsum rock, chiseled and engraved.
Sculpture of a headstone, supported on a six-step pedestal. Two vertical columns, surmounted by rectangular horizontal cornice, in turn surmounted by arch. Inscribed (Hebrew) on cornice: "To the eternal memory [and] in honor of the members of my family who were murdered by the loathsome Nazis." Inscribed (Hebrew) on the arch: "Remember what Amalek did unto you" (paraphrasing of Deuteronomy 25:17). Underneath the arch is a relief of the Two Tablets of the Law. Headstone with high relief depicting a woman in mourning and prayer and a weeping willow. Inscribed in Hebrew between the left column and the willow are the names of the sculptor's family members who perished in the Holocaust.
Height: 16 cm. Width: 20 cm. Depth: 12 cm. Fractures, professionally restored.
Reference: Gideon Ofrat and Galia Bar Or, "The First Decade: A Hegemony and a Plurality," exhibition catalogue, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, 2008, p. 131 (photographed).
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