Portrait of the Madonna
Date made: 1942
Description: Oil on board portrait of the Madonna, with barbed wire fence visible in background. Signed & dated 'Sorgiani 1942 IOM'.
According to the 1939 Register, Giuseppe Sorgiani was born 19 February 1889, living at 23 Earnshaw Street, Holborn, London. He was an unemployed canvas artist.
Information was received 2012 from a Mrs Quine who has another Sorgiani painting: Sorgiani was interned in Peel and c1943 was in the battery hospital for internees in Peel. He was so grateful for the care that he received from Mrs Quine's aunt that he gave her the painting in her possession.
Sorgianni also prepared the frontespiece illustration for a Catholic prayer book 'Benefica Fede' produced in Onchan Camp in 1940. The background of that work and 2004-0030 are similar.
Measurements: unframed artwork: 45 cm x 34.5 cm
Materials: oil on board
Object name: painting
Collection: Art Collection
ID number: 2004-0030