The ghetto wall
1943
Medium
oil on canvas on composition board
Measurements
44.4 × 37.4 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented through The Art Foundation of Victoria by Mr Yosl Bergner, Founder Benefactor, 1985
© Estate of the artist
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Melbourne, Victoria
Inscription
inscribed in black paint l.l.: Bergner
inscribed in brush and ink on reverse u.c.: 44 x 37 (…illeg.) / Yosl Bergner / "THE GHETTO WALL" (…illeg.) / 1943
Accession Number
A2-1985
Department
Australian Painting
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Subjects (general)
Emotions and Mental States Human Figures
Subjects (specific)
barbed wire ghettos imprisonment men (male humans) social realism suffering walls World War II (global war, 1939-1945)
Movements
Modernism