GALLERY WEEKEND
BERLIN
2 – 4 May
Mikołaj Sobczak
In A Cabaret, 2023
Oil on canvas in artist’s frame
Signed, dated and titled verso
54.5 x 43.5 cm
21.5 x 17.1 inches
21.5 x 17.1 inches
B-MSOBCZAK-.24-0008
Based on a black-and-white photograph of Eva Kotchever, the image of the writer is seen through a pair of legs from the point of view of a theater stage. Little...
Based on a black-and-white photograph of Eva Kotchever, the image of the writer is seen through a pair of legs from the point of view of a theater stage. Little is known about Eva Kotchever’s activities in Poland after her deportation from New York to Warsaw in 1925; this time period remains a subject of ongoing research for historians. Kotchever then relocated from Warsaw to Paris, where rumors suggest she organized a lesbian cabaret. Additionally, it is rumored that she encountered her future partner, Hella Olstein, in a Parisian cabaret, and tragically, they both died in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943.