Premonitory drawing by Bencjon Benn
Overview
- Artwork Title
- Innocence engloutie
- Date
-
creation:
1939
- Geography
-
creation:
La Couture-Boussey;
Eure (France)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Estate of Bencjon Benn
- Signature
- "Benn 1939"
- Contributor
-
Artist:
Bencjon Benn
Physical Details
- Classification
-
Art
- Category
-
Drawings
- Object Type
-
Drawing (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- White pencil image of two abstract birds on side of fish face, pennant, and hand on black paper.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 19.610 inches (49.809 cm) | Width: 25.630 inches (65.1 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, colored pencil
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in art.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by the Estate of Bencjon Benn.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:22:05
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn6759
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