A Jewish Holocaust survivor who was born in Leningrad and grew up in Riga, Latvia, Boris Lurie arrived in New York City in the mid 1940s where he began showing work at the March Gallery that were "dark, provacative, often depicting violence and death." He did figurative subjects, a collage, sculpture and painting including a gas chamber scene of a pin-up girl undressing.
In 1960, he and others with the same approach of dark themes, including Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher, called th (showing 500 of 1325 characters). |
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