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The ghetto wall

The ghetto wall
 1943

Medium
oil on canvas on composition board
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
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Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
oil on canvas on composition board
Measurements
44.4 × 37.4 cm
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
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
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display
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

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