print
- Museum number
- 2022,7010.7
- Title
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Object: Untitled
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Series: La sueur froide (Cold Sweat)
- Description
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Group of figures tearing up (?) books; print from the portfolio, La sueur froide (Cold Sweat), suite of 19 prints, each print presented within a contemporary cut window mount. c.1940
Etching and aquatint in brown ink
- Production date
- c.1940
- Dimensions
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Height: 165 millimetres
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Height: 285 millimetres
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Width: 130 millimetres (image)
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Width: 225 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The suite of etchings depicts atrocities committed against Jewish civilians. Maurice Collis (1889-1973), British writer and former administrator in Burma supported Szobel when he was in London during the Second World War.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2022
- Acquisition notes
- Gifted by the artist around 1943 to Maurice Collis (1889-1973); consigned by his descendants to Jane England (England & Co) for sale.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2022,7010.7