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