Attributed to Maurice MENDJISKY (1889-1951) Young girl Felt pen on paper. 74 x 23 cm Provenance: KUPFER Collection A portrait very close to some of the plates in his book on the Warsaw ghetto. This particular face, which seems to bear the weight of the world upon it, recurs several times in this work. Here's how André Salmon describes the artist and his work: "The subject! The artist is put in prison. His wife was deported. One of his twenty-year-old sons was shot. In Warsaw, Jews are exterminated en masse in their Ghetto. That's the subject..." "I know that Picasso thought long and hard about Mendjisky's plates of horror, and that he did not spare his praise...the work about which Picasso could evoke Goya; the work conceived, pursued, completed in the worst moral and physical pain; these plates on which the artist's last breath was exhaled. "(Andre Salmon, Introduction to Maurice Mendjisky, Hommage aux derniers martyrs du ghetto de Varsovie. Les éditions des Boulingrins, Monaco, 1955). Keywords: judaica, jew, jewish, hebrew, rabbis, jewish, torah, hebrew, hebraica, judaism, synagogue, zionism, pessah, pessach, haggada, haggadah, hagada, hagadah, passover, menora, menorah, hannuka, hannuca, hannucca, hanouccah, torah, juden, israélite, Israël, antisemitism, antisémitisme, dreyfus, meguila, sepharade, sefarad, ketouba