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Auction 50 · Lot 352
(HOLOCAUST).
- Estimate
- $800–$1,200
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
Montreal, 1960.
Description
Exceptionally unusual plaster-of-Paris craft-work depicting on right-hand side a gruesome tableaux of the horrors of a Nazi death-camp showing the brutalities of a “selection” and corpses alongside crematoria. At center: The S.S. Exodus carrying “illegal” immigrants steaming toward left-hand side: The Land of Israel hemmed by British-patrolled barrier and depiction of Cyprus detention-camp adjacent. Captions in Hebrew and English. Signed lower right, J. Shubert (likely a Holocaust survivor).
21 x 32 inches (including frame)
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