Elie Wiesel 1928-2016 18×18″ Oil on canvas

$1,000.00

Each original artwork starts with a subject idea that is meaningful for me personally, followed by daydreaming and a sketch. I painstakingly work on each piece, whether it be for three weeks or more, until each and every detail is right. I use the highest quality paints and cover the painting with a varnish so that it will not crack nor yellow. The canvas is top-grade and hand woven in India, and finished with three coats of primer. The stretcher bars are made of solid wood and are treated to be warp-proof. These pieces are made to last.

Custom sized prints are available upon request!

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Elie Wiesel 1928-2016   18x18"

Oil on canvas 
Original art

Elie Wiesel was a Jewish writer, teacher, activist, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner. He is well-known for his trilogy of books: Night, Dawn and Day that deals with his experiences in concentration camps of the Holocaust and issues such a grief, horror, memory and redemption as well as many other books. I am currently reading Wise Men and Their Tales: Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic, and Hasidic Masters which truly shows the vast knowledge he has for the history of Judaism, tradition, observance and key figures in its past. He writes with a sensitivity, honesty and depth of insight that most writers do not have. His legacy will, G-d willing, be that our world remembers the severity and devastation of Hitler's German for infinite generations to come. More than all of this, I believe, he is someone Jews today and everyday can look up to.