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Jérusalem, Fin de Journée
Daniel Enkaoua
2003
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Daniel Enkaoua was born in France and moved to Israel in 1981. He is best known for his paintings of still lifes, landscapes, and the human figure. In 2004, Enkaoua was awarded the Prix de la Société des Bains de Mer in Monte Carlo. He lives in Barcelona.
He Cast a Look and Went Mad depicts traditional East European Jews in some sort of religious setting but invokes in its title the classic talmudic legend of the sage who “looked and was injured” when…
Would you, mama, believe if I told
That everything here is changed into gold,
That gold is made from iron and blood,
Day and night, from iron and blood?
—My son, from a mother you cannot hide—
A…