“Warsaw 1943: These I Remember, and my Soul Melts with Sorrow.” Designed by Ben Shahn.
AUCTION 65 |
Thursday, June 25th,
2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art
Lot 193
(HOLOCAUST).
“Warsaw 1943: These I Remember, and my Soul Melts with Sorrow.” Designed by Ben Shahn.
American, 1963:
Est: $600 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
The raw emotion of the imagery reflects Shahn’s selected liturgical text, an excerpt from the portion of the Ten Martyrs recited on Yom Kippur and Tisha B’av: “…For strangers have devoured us like unturned cakes, for in the days of the tyrant there was no reprieve for the martyrs murdered by the government.”
Commemorates the 20th anniversary of the destruction of Jewish Warsaw.