The Unknowable Artist: Stéphane Mandelbaum

The rest of the work is full of images of Bacon as well as versions of figures Bacon had drawn, done in Mandelbaum’s sickly, pornographic style, which evokes Egon Schiele. In another drawing, from 1983, called “Dream of Auschwitz,” Mandelbaum depicted an erect penis next to the gates of the camp; in another, from 1982, “Kischmatores: Portrait of Arié Mandelbaum,” he drew a black-and-white image of his father, Arié—a known painter and art teacher—above a colorful picture of a Nazi officer. Stéphane Mandelbaum, Composition (figure au masque)

Mandelbaum’s art was about these kinds of additions—a penis to Christ, a Nazi general to his family portrait.

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