Watercolor on paper (22 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches), matted, framed and glazed. Signed and dated, Baskin 1980, lower center; signed and dated ind inscribed "Lament" on the verso. The work consists of seven heads in three rows, forming an inverted triangle, with Hebrew calligraphy separating the rows. It illustrates verse 3:34 from The Book of Lamentations. The watercolor has been reproduced on the dust jacket of The Six Days of Destruction by Elie Wiesel & Albert H. Friedlander (Paulist Press, 1988).Leonard Baskin is one of the most important American artists working today. His sculpture, prints, drawings, watercolors and the books of his Gehenna Press are represented in Museums throughout the world, and his monumental bronze relief fills a fifty foot wall at the recently dedicated Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C.