SOLDStudy for An Allegory of Social Strife , late 1920's
Framed (ref: 5549)
Gouache on paper
13 x 16 in. (33 x 40.7 cm)
SOLDProvenance: The Artist's Studio
This modern day Crucifixion scene – a study for a larger mural – depicts the artist himself on the Cross.
Dating to the second half of the 1920’s - a period of mass unemployment and social unrest lasting well into the 1930s - it recalls images of the 1926 General Strike, which Ziegler would have himself lived through as a young art student.
Ziegler’s striking composition is likely to have influenced Emmanuel Levy’s self portrait
Jesus The Jew, 1942, (Private collection)
