The work represents a woman with two children. The little one is sitting on her hands while the elder one, a girl, is standing frontally to the left of her mother. The woman is shown in the moment when she starts to go up the stairs.
She is turned rightwards in profile. Her left leg is already stands on the lower stair while the right one is still standing on the ground. There is a basket hanging on the woman's right hand. The elder girl clings to its edge with the right hand. The left hand is lowered. On the background one can see the outlines of the houses of a shtetl. The work is painted with free brush strokes. Some parts of the paper are left unpainted.
Name/Title
Akselrod, Woman with children | Unknown
Object
Object Detail
Settings
Unknown
Date
1928
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Origin
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Unknown
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Site
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School/Style
Period
Unknown
Period Detail
Collection
Documentation / Research project
Unknown
Category
Material / Technique
The work is painted with deluted black, brown and pink watercolors on thick white paper.
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Material Decoration
Material Bonding
Material Inscription
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Material Cloth
Material Lining
Tesserae Arrangement
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Measurements
Height
475mm.
Length
357mm.
Width
Depth
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Thickness
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Weight
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Subject
Condition
Extant
Documented by CJA
Surveyed by CJA
Present Usage
Present Usage Details
Condition of Building Fabric
Architectural Significance type
Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
Significance Rating
Textual Content
Unknown |
Languages of inscription
Unknown
Shape / Form
Unknown
0
Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
Codicology
Scribes
Script
Number of Lines
Ruling
Pricking
Quires
Catchwords
Hebrew Numeration
Blank Leaves
Direction/Location
Façade (main)
Endivances
Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
Location of Platform
Temp: Architecture Axis
Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
Coin
Coin Series
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Denomination
Signature
Signature in LR. M.Akselrod in Russian cursive letters. Pencil.
Colophon
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Group
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Trade Mark
Binding
Decoration Program
Summary and Remarks
The work belongs to the series "The Civil War" carried out by the artist in the 1920s. A nearly identical variant of this drawing is kept in the Russian museum in St Petersburg. On the back side of the drawing there is a painting from the series "The Glass Works" (1936).
Remarks
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
1991 brought to Israel.
Main Surveys & Excavations
Bibliography
Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Type
Documenter
| M.Y. 6.1994
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Architectural Drawings
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Computer Reconstruction
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Language Editor
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Donor
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Object Copyright
Yachilevich Family
Negative/Photo. No.