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Twenty five drawings and prints by Grete Wolf-Krakauer, created during sessions of UNSCOP. [Palestine, 1947].
UNSCOP [United Nations Special Committee on Palestine] was created in 1947 to investigate the question of Palestine, and it included representatives from eleven nations from around the world. During its operations the committee gathered information in Palestine, in Arab countries and even in Displaced Persons Camps in Europe, and finally, in August 1947, it recommended a partition of Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate. Since photography during sessions was not allowed, the artist Grete Wolf-Krakauer was commissioned to draw the participants.
This collection includes:
1-9. Nine pencil drawings on paper. Portraits of the committee members, among them: Emil Sandström (representative of Sweden and chairman of the committee), John Hood (Australian representative), Moshe Sharett (representative of the Jewish Agency) as well as representatives from Iran, India, Holland and more. On two of the drawings appear, most probably, autographs of the objects of the drawings.
10-19. Ten drawings in ink on tracing paper (drawn after the pencil drawings). Signed: G. K. W.
19-25. Six trial prints of the drawings.
Enclosed: Issue of the newspaper "Mitteilungsblatt, Alija Chadascha" from 20.6.1947 in which some of the drawings were printed. German.
Total of nineteen drawings and six prints. Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Stains and tears (most of them small, at margins). Pinholes to four of the pencil drawings. Two of the tracing papers are torn (some open tears), and one tracing papers is creased.
Provenance: Dotan family collection, Jerusalem.