Overall: 54cm (21.2in) x 44cm (17.2in)
Oil on board. Head portrait of the vanquisher of fascism and socialists. Signed lower right ‘Imbermann / 44’. Framed and glazed.
Attributed to the multidisciplinary artist Nicky Imber (born Ignatz Imberman, 1920-1996). Imberman escaped from Dachau in 1940 only to be interned by the British in Mauritius. In 1943, Imberman was released on condition of enlistment in the British Army. He served as a war artist and a dental orderly in East Africa. After the war he pledged to dedicate his art to perpetuating the memory of the Holocaust. Among his more famous sculptural works are ‘The Hope’ and ‘The Love of Torah’. He travelled extensively in Europe and South America. He set up a studio in New York in the early 1970s, where he worked on oil portraits and bronze busts, his sitters including the Aga Khan, Tyrone Power, Ava Gardner, David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir. He returned to Venezuela in 1976, and later settled in Israel.