Lea Lilienblum was a Polish-born artist best known for her haunting portrait of the Yiddish poet Yitshak Katzenelson, who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944. Lilienblum and Katzenelson were both prisoners in the Warsaw ghetto; Lilienblum drew his image on the back of a shoebox. Lilienblum survived the ghetto and immigrated to Israel after the war, where she settled on Kibbutz Loḥamei HaGeta’ot.
This silk cushion cover, embroidered with metallic thread and metallic braid, is thought to have been made in Istanbul. Divided into two horizontal planes, with a narrow border running on three of its…
June 7, 1943Mr. Edward Alden JewellArt EditorNew York Times229 West 43 StreetNew York, N.Y.Dear Mr. Jewell:To the artist, the workings of the critical mind is one of life’s mysteries. That is why, we…