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Pogrom, 1969
Oil on canvas, 19 1/2 x 27 3/8 in. (49,5 x 70 cm.)
In contrast to Gurvich's colorful depictions of religious festivals, the
pain and suffering of the Jews in the shtetls of Lithuania in paintings like the
powerful and wrenching Pogrom, are rendered in dark burnt umbers and oranges. The
village of wooden huts, peopled by men with long beards and coats, is poignantly
depicted as if Gurvich could have remembered the onslaught of terror from his
childhood. |
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