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Signed on lower right corner in graphite, Irene AWRET. A.P. Depicts a girl playing a flute in patterned blouse and skirt with words Peace Above her. Framed in wooden frame with black and gold leafed outer edge and white mat board. Approximately 34.5 x 28 inches window measures 25 x 19 inches Evident loss to frame and minor creases to lithograph. Signed lithograph, German artist, Irene Awret signed litho, signed lithograph, fine art lithograph, Figural art, framed lithograph, framed art, Wall art, interior design, art. 12 Art wall Irene Awret or Irene Spicker (19212014) was a German artist, author and Holocaust survivor. In 1943 Awret was detained by the Gestapo in occupied Belgium and subsequently sent to the Mechelen transit camp. There she worked in the camp art workshop where she produced signs and armbands. She was also required to paint portraits of Nazi officers. In the camp she met Azriel Awret (1910-2011),fellow artist and prisoner. The two married in late 1944 after the liberation of Mechelen. In the 1970s the couple moved to the United States. In 2004 Awret's memoir They'll Have to Catch Me First: An Artist's Coming of Age in the Third Reich was published by the University of Wisconsin Press. Awret died in Falls Church, Virginia on June 6, 2014.