Francine
Francine
‘Francine’
’21 x 27cm Acrylic on canvas board, framed as shown with white wood frame.
This painting has a sad story. I made it after reading about it on the World Holocaust Remembrance Centre website on Holocaust memorial day. It is of a doll's crib built by Ycek-Josef Horonoczyk for his daughter Francine while he was interned in the Beaune-la-Rolande camp. Ycek-Josef Horoncyzk was later deported from Drancy to Auchwitz, where he was murdered.
This is one of a series of paintings I’ve made this year reflecting on different experiences of childhood.
This painting is part of a series I began in 2023 called ‘We’ve never met…’
Whilst typically making abstract paintings, I have recently felt compelled to create a collection of figurative work in light of current world events. In particular, I have been looking at the experience of childhood, and the pronounced differences which can happen.
This is a painting refers to of a doll's crib built by a man called Ycek-Josef Horonoczyk for his daughter Francine while he was interned in the Beaune-la-Rolande camp during the second world war. He was later deported from Drancy to Auchwitz, where he was murdered. I found the story and image on World Holocaust Remembrance Centre website.