- Artist/Maker:
- Marcel Janco
- Bio:
- Israeli, b. Romania, 1895-1984
- Title:
- Ma'abarot in Gray
- Date:
- c. 1950
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 31 1/2 × 39 1/8 in. (80 × 99.4 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Allan Strook
- Accession Number:
- JM 28-63
- Copyright:
- © 2009 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Not On View
The masses of refugees who flocked to Israel after the founding of the State in 1948 was a subject that preoccupied Marcel Janco. In this painting, new immigrants sit in the foreground; in the background, the tents of makeshift transit camps (the ma'abarot) rise among the palm trees and yellow hills of the Israeli landscape. Born in Bucharest, Janco was a founder of the Dada art movement in Zurich before emigrating in 1940. In Israel, he joined the "New Horizons" group who brought abstraction to the Israel art scene in the 1950s.
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