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LOT 405:
Painting of Latrun Internment Camp – Avigdor Kipnis, 1947
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Painting of Latrun Internment Camp – Avigdor Kipnis, 1947
Painting of Latrun Internment camp' pencil and water color on paper. Signed: A. Kipnis, Latrun, 1947.
The painting illustrates electrical power lines, barbed wire fences, barracks, watch towers and a watch post.
The painter is most probably Avigdor Kipnis, one of the Lechi detainees in Latroun, member of "Brit Ha-Biryonim", a revisionist national movement active in the 1930's in Eretz Yisrael. This movement opposed the British mandate and believed in the return of Jews to their homeland even through using force.
44 X 30 cm, framed 56.5 X 42.5 cm. Good condition. Few stains.
