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Attributed to Ernest BIRO, known as BIRI BIRI...

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Attributed to Ernest BIRO, known as BIRI BIRI (1905-1944) Portrait of a man in profile Charcoal, white chalk and red chalk drawing, signed lower left. 30.5 x 23.5 cm An artist of Hungarian origin, Ernest BIRO produced numerous caricatures which he signed Biri Biri. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1943, he was deported to Auschwitz where he was murdered the following year.