Alva (1901-1973)
Exodus , 1938
69.8 x 90 cm (h x w)
Oil on canvas
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When Alva painted this work he was experiencing his own exodus. Made in the year before the outbreak of the Second World War, this symbolic painting references both the ancient biblical account of the departure of the Israelites from Egypt and the artist’s own ‘forced journey’ from Germany.

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