SI LEWEN
The Great Feast, 1964
Acrylic and collage on five panels
120 1/8 x 90 in
305 x 228.5 cm
(JCG16095)
SI LEWEN
Sunday Bridge, 1952
Oil on board
22 x 30 in.
55.9 x 76.2 cm
JCG17134
SI LEWEN
The Procession, 2008-10
Acrylic on canvas, five panels
40.5 x 102.5 in / 102.9 x 260.4 cm (overall)
40.5 x 20.5 in / 102.9 x 52 cm (each)
JCG17150
SI LEWEN
Odyssey, c. 1950
Oil on canvas, two panels
30 x 40 in
76.2 x 101.6 cm
(JCG17139)
SI LEWEN
Dinner Time, c. 1962
Mixed media on canvas
45 1/2 x 28 1/2 in.
115.6 x 72.4 cm
JCG17129
SI LEWEN
Untitled drawing from The Parade, c. 1950
Crayon, ink, paint and graphite on gessoed board
12 x 18 in.
30.5 x 45.7 cm
SI LEWEN
Untitled drawing from The Parade, c. 1950
Crayon, ink, paint and graphite on gessoed board
12 x 18 in.
30.5 x 45.7 cm
SI LEWEN
Untitled drawing from The Parade, c. 1950
Crayon, ink, paint and graphite on gessoed board
12 x 18 in.
30.5 x 45.7 cm
SI LEWEN
Untitled drawing from The Parade, c. 1950
Crayon, ink, paint and graphite on gessoed board
12 x 18 in.
30.5 x 45.7 cm
Detail
SI LEWEN
Untitled drawing from The Parade, c. 1950
Crayon, ink, paint and graphite on gessoed board
12 x 18 in.
30.5 x 45.7 cm
SI LEWEN
Untitled drawing from The Parade, c. 1950
Crayon, ink, paint and graphite on gessoed board
12 x 18 in.
30.5 x 45.7 cm
James Cohan is pleased to present Si Lewen, curated by Art Spiegelman, on view at the gallery’s 52 Walker Street location from March 23 through April 27, 2024. Polish-born artist Si Lewen (1918-2016) is best known for The Parade, an epic cycle of sixty-three black and white drawings that contends with the horrors the artist witnessed during the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. Lewen served in the United States Army during the Second World War as part of the Ritchie Boys, a specialized force of native German-speaking G.I.s, some of whom were Jewish refugees who immigrated to the US fleeing Nazi persecution. This strikingly modern and profoundly resonant work is presented at James Cohan alongside important works from Lewen’s oeuvre dating from the early 1950s to the mid-2000s, the majority of which have not been seen for four decades.
This exhibition marks the first time that the full suite of The Parade has been shown in New York, following an exhibition at the Menil Collection in Houston in 2023.
