Dora Holzhandler (1928-2015)

The Bather
  • signed and dated 2000
  • pen, ink and watercolour
  • 14 by 12 cm.; 5 ½ by 4 ¾ in.
  • £750
Dora Holzhandler (1928-2015)

Born in Paris into a family of Polish refugees, Dora Holzhandler was later sent to live with a foster family on a farm in Normandy. She returned to her Jewish family when she was 5 before the family moved to London in 1934. Though she endured the War in England, much of her extended family perished at Auschwitz. In 1948, she attended the Anglo-French Art School in St. John’s Wood.
 
Her childhood memories and Jewish roots permeate her work. Holzhandler’s innocent art is widely collected.

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