Please Let Me Live

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Description

Triptych painting dedicated to Jewish children killed in the Holocaust. Left panel depicts foreground of green grass with a dove surrounded by barbed wire with a smoky fire in background against a blue sky. Center panel depicts a child wearing green in the foreground surrounded by barbed wire and crumbling gray buildings in background. Left panel depicts remains of a gray building in the foreground with grass and flowers.

Arturas Slapsys was born in Lithuania in 1962 and studied at Kaunas University of Technology. Since his move to the United States in 1996 his popularity has grown. The Lithuanian Postal Service has issued three postage stamps using his designs.

This item is currently not on display.

Rights

In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Physical Dimensions

72 x 26 in.