Painted in 1944, The Ragged One is a representative example of Lebrun’s work of the early 1940s. Deeply affected by the human suffering and destruction of World War II, the artist gravitated to morbid, tortured subjects, which paved the way for his more mature works, including the Crucifixion Triptych (1950, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York), a group of paintings on the Holocaust, and a series of drawings illustrating Dante’s Inferno .
Artwork history & notes Artwork History Provenance (Sylvan Simone Gallery, Los