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Before the Second World War, Jacques Ochs achieved fame as a caricaturist for the Paris magazine Le Figaro and the Brussels Pourquoi Pas? Ochs, who lived in Liège, was of Jewish descent and an outspoken opponent of Nazism. During the occupation he was imprisoned in Breendonk. The drawings he made there received great attention after the war.
After 1945 he also started to paint more and these sad clowns are a good example of that.
This canvas is in pristine condition and was framed by Schleiper.