About the creation

Departure from Egypt

Artist name: Kiefer Anselm

In a desert landscape, a dirt track runs in a dry wadi at the foot of bare hills. Above hovers a cloud whose inverted colors may evoke the play between smoke and fire, day and night in the account of the Exodus.

© Anselm Kiefer Photo : Atelier Anselm Kiefer and The White Cube

Source: Exodus 14

Technique: Synthetic polymer on composition board

Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York

Date: 1984

Dimensions: 109.5 x 85