New drawings discovered
30 June 2013
Courtesy Ephraim Margolin, California, USADuring the last few days, a number of photographs of lost works have turned up in private collections in California. The largest and most exciting discovery was a portfolio album of photographs of many paintings and drawings prepared by Lejzerowicz in the summer of 1938 as a remembrance to present to his friend and patron, Ewa Spektor Margolin, when she returned to Poland from Tel Aviv for a summer visit. Lejzerowicz stayed with the Margolin family in Wiśniowa Góra. The drawing above, dated 1931, shows the young artist in a lively moment. Lejzerowicz put this drawing first in the album he presented to Ewa Spektor Margolin. Other works (most of which no longer exist to the best of our knowledge) included photos of pictures of his mother as well as an image of the painting he did of Ewa herself, the original of which hung in Dr. Julius Margolin’s (Ewa’s husband) apartment in Łódź. Julius stayed behind in Łódź while sending his wife and son to Palestine in 1936. Julius was due to join them in September 1939, but the war intervened; he couldn’t join them permanently until 1946 - following many years in a Soviet labor camp.
