Author: Wlastimil Hofman Title: Grave of Halina Zajączkowska (1945)
Technique: ink, crayon, pencil, paper
Dimensions: 21.2 x 20.2 cm
Signed and dated underneath: "Wlastimil Hofman | 29/III WH 45".
Inscribed on the underside: "Grave of Halina | Zajączkowska | Jaffa".
Inscribed in pencil on the reverse.
Inscribed in pencil on the back: "who committed suicide by hanging | herself in a cistern in a Polish house | in Jaffa. | Sister H. Zajączkowska is said to have had | intercourse with a refugee Krzysztowski married | and said to have children. She posed for a triptych before her death. | Jaffa | WH"; "Grave of Polish nurse Halina | Zajączkowska, who committed | suicide by hanging herself | in a cistern in the Polish house | in Jaffa | WH".
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