Out of exhibition – Mendl Gorshman
Shloyme Mikhoels After his Death 1948
Pencil on paper
This drawing was created as Shloyme Mikhoels’s coffin was lying-in-state in Moscow to allow the public to pay their respects following his murder in Belarus by the Soviet secret police, who had staged his death as a car accident.
Gift of Tanya Rubinstein-Horowitz