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The art of the fictive painter Justine Frank joins erotic motifs and Jewish imagery—a disturbing, hallucinatory combination. The same mixture of smut and Jewish tropes appears in the only book she authored, the pornographic novel ‘SWEET SWEAT’ (1931).
Emigrating from Antwerp to Paris, Frank mingled with members the Surrealist movement but her career was hindered by her intimate relationship with controversial author Georges Bataille, who at that time was having a veritable war with Surrealist leader André Breton.
Her personal, financial and professional difficulties, finally brought the artist to emigrate to Palestine in 1934 where she became an untouchable for her beliefs and attitude. In 1942 Frank snuck into the opening of an exhibition and was arrested for assaulting a guest but a friend of hers bailed her out and invited her to stay at their apartment. After a few nights there, Frank walked out of the apartment one afternoon and was never seen again.
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