Emancipation

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Elefánt Jenő

Emantipatio

colored pencils, paper, 47.7 x 23.8 cm

The work is part of the symbolic language used by some avant-garde artists in the post-World War I period, concerned with major changes in society and seeing in their works a utopian transformation of it.

Elefánt Jenő

Emantipatio

colored pencils, paper, 47.7 x 23.8 cm

  • Signed at the bottom right:

    Elephant

  • titled at the bottom left on the passe-partout with pencil:

    Emancipatio

  • on the back:

    1. no. registration Gallery Quadro: 2881

    2. stamp DJC Cluj

  • Condition of the work:

    on the left side there is a long vertical stripe caused by bending

  • Documents:

    - expert report Sebestyén Székely from 16.03.2017

    - Certificate of sale of the Quadro Gallery, the cultural asset appearing at no. 2881, dated 11/18/2016

Elefánt Jenő

Elefánt Jenő

Oradea, 1899 - Mauthausen, 1945

He was born under the star of David, making him a target for the Nazis.

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