One Day, One Child Series

Publisher Museum Placement Services

Artist Gabriella Nikolic (Canadian, born Serbia)

MediumMonotype with paint, on Stonehenge paper

DimensionsSheet: 28 1/8 x 40 in. Image: 28 1/8 x 36 1/8 in.

SignedSigned in white at lower right: Gabriella

Credit LineGift of Susan Robson

Object numberCAN2000.017.MPS

DescriptionImages are Auschwitz gate, children of the Warsaw ghetto (Nos. 140-151), mug shot of female Auschwitz prisoner 26947, Jewish women and children waiting to go to gas chambers in Auschwitz, and a boy crouching on the ground in the Warsaw ghetto. The female prisoner’s number 26947 and the “schwitz” portion of Auschwitz are in white rectangles on the left. Four small white Xs across the center and three larger pink Xs. Principle colors are shades of purple, maroon, and dark blue with black.

ClassificationsPrints

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