“I took the inner decision to observe, study my surroundings and how my people lived and spoke. To listen to their language exactly and to evade the supposed embraces of solidarity especially of women, these women around me who refused to think further than war-is-mens-business."
—Miriam Cahn
Provenance
Meyer Riegger, Basel Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2022
Exhibited
Nanjing, Sifang Art Museum, Miriam Cahn and Claudia Martínez Garay: Ten Thousand Things, 8 November 2020 - 23 May 2021
signed with the artist's initial, titled and dated 'zurückweichen M 21.3.16 + 8.2.17' on the reverse oil on panel 36 x 30 cm (14 1/8 x 11 3/4 in.) Painted in 2016-17.