Untitled [Skeletons/Crucifixes] by Sidney Nolan
Object numberM2022/028:008
TitleUntitled [Skeletons/Crucifixes] by Sidney Nolan
Creator Sidney Nolan (artist)
DescriptionWork on paper depicting a brown and yellow skeletal figure laying on a purple trolley. Above the figure is a crucifix with plumes of smoke. The work is signed at lower left corner of trolley with '711926 Nolan'.
This work is one of a series of artworks depicting Holocaust victims painted by Sidney Nolan during and immediately following the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961.
This work is one of a series of artworks depicting Holocaust victims painted by Sidney Nolan during and immediately following the Adolf Eichmann trial in 1961.
Production placeEngland
Production date 1962-01-07
Subject, artists, holocaust art, Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, court procedures, perpetrators, victims, Adolf Eichmann trial
Object namepaintings
Dimensions
- width: 520.00 mm
height: 635.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, gift of the estate of Mary Nolan / © The Sidney Nolan Trust. All Rights Reserved.