(Bukovica 1909–2005 Venice)
Nous ne sommes pas les derniers (we are not the last), 1970, signed and dated Mušicˇ 70, titled, signed and dated on the reverse, acrylic on canvas, 65 x 81 cm, framed

Provenance:
Everett Bernard Birch (1920–1987) and Patti Cadby Birch
(1923–2007), Collection USA (2 labels on the reverse)
acquired directly from the artist
Sotheby’s New York, 24 November 2009, lot 145
acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited:
Paris, Galerie de France, Mušicˇ – Nous ne sommes pas les derniers,
18 December 1970 – 30 January 1971
Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Zoran Mušicˇ :
1946–1972, 16 November 1972 –10 January 1973, exh. cat. no. 69 ill. (introduction: Jacques Lassaigne, text: André Berne-Joffroy)
Venice, Museo Correr, Mušicˇ : Opere, 1946–1985, August – November 1985, exh. cat. with ill. page 99 (label on the reverse)
New York, The Jewish Museum, An Artist’s Response to Evil:
We are Not the Last by Zoran Mušicˇ , 17 March – 30 June 2002

Published in:
Jean Grenier, Non siamo gli ultimi in Panorama delle arti, no. 2, 1972

“When we were in the camp, people would often declare that this sort of thing could never happen again. When the war was over, they said, a better world will come into being and such horrors will never recur…But then, as time went by, I saw the same sort of thing starting to happen again all over the world – in Vietnam, in the Gulag, in Latin America – everywhere. And I realized that what we had said in those days – that we would be the last people to experience such things – was not true: the truth is that we were not the last.”

Zoran Antonio Mušic˘