One Day, One Child Series

Publisher Museum Placement Services

Artist Gabriella Nikolic (Canadian, born Serbia)

MediumMonotype with painting, on Stonehenge paper

Dimensions28 1/2” x 40”

SignedSigned at lower right: Gabriella

Credit LineGift of Susan Robson

Object numberCAN2000.027.MPS

DescriptionCentral images are circled Star of David and black Auschwitz gate with smaller Auschwitz gate at top center. Secondary images include Jewish women and children waiting to go to gas chambers in Auschwitz, a crowd of people in the Warsaw ghetto, adult Auschwitz prisoners at liberation, the little boy with his arms up and guard pointing gun at him, children of the Warsaw ghetto, and mug shot of female Auschwitz prisoner 26947. A large X appears in the lower left corner and three Xs in green crayon on the far right.Texts in German, Dutch, French, English, Hebrew, and Serbo-Croatian. Principle colors are black, gray, orange, and red with some yellow and green.

ClassificationsPrints

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