Jankiel Adler (1895 Tuszyn near Lodz - 1949 Aldbourne/Angland), Still life on a table, 1947.

oil, paper on canvas, 39 × 51 cm
Signed and dated l. d.: "Adler 47"

Provenance:
- Christie's London, Auction 7.04.2005, cat. no. 381
- private collection, Poland

"The charge of extreme emotions contained in the oil compositions or graphic notations is associated in most of the surviving works with an expressionist explosion of the soul's scream. Primitive realism, full of sarcasm and sometimes melancholy environmental scenes, were an expression of resentment against bourgeois banality and quackery, a suggestion of cultural revival. Fantastic visions of oriental Jewish exoticism did not shy away from irony and the grotesque. Nevertheless, thoroughly individual, the works are imbued with a universal vision of the creation of a new man, especially difficult to present convincingly when juxtaposed with the image of a crumbling world. The realization of the existing dangers, stripping reality of its illusions, became an accurate argument to justify the formation of all-human ideals."
J. Zagrodzki, Jung Idysz Group in Search of Universal Art, [in:]"Jung-Idysz/Yung-Yidish 1919", Łódź 2019, p. 31.