Lot Essay
A lignum vitae carving of this sculpture was exhibited:
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Annual Exhibition, 1943, no. 73. Glasgow, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Annual Exhibition, 1943, no. 404. (illustrated).
London, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, 1944, no. 1205. Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Annual Exhibition, 1949, no. 21. Haifa, Municipal Museum of Modern Art and Jerusalem, Bezalel National Museum, Benno Schotz Sculptures, 1955, no. 2.
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Annual Exhibition, 1962, no. 11. Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Annual Exhibition, 1966, no. 54. Edinburgh, Benno Schotz Retrospective, Touring Exhibition, 1971, no. 47.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, 1981, no. 199.
The Second World War had a numbing effect on Schotz and upon his work. "My hands seemed shackled by the terrible catastrophy and in those years I produced little. In 1943 I carved a fairly large lignum vitae half length figure I called 'The Lament'. It was an expression of my feelings for my fellow Jews of Europe". op. cit. Benno Schotz lecture, 1966.
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Annual Exhibition, 1943, no. 73. Glasgow, Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts, Annual Exhibition, 1943, no. 404. (illustrated).
London, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, 1944, no. 1205. Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Annual Exhibition, 1949, no. 21. Haifa, Municipal Museum of Modern Art and Jerusalem, Bezalel National Museum, Benno Schotz Sculptures, 1955, no. 2.
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Annual Exhibition, 1962, no. 11. Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, Annual Exhibition, 1966, no. 54. Edinburgh, Benno Schotz Retrospective, Touring Exhibition, 1971, no. 47.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, 1981, no. 199.
The Second World War had a numbing effect on Schotz and upon his work. "My hands seemed shackled by the terrible catastrophy and in those years I produced little. In 1943 I carved a fairly large lignum vitae half length figure I called 'The Lament'. It was an expression of my feelings for my fellow Jews of Europe". op. cit. Benno Schotz lecture, 1966.