Family (1940-es évek eleje)

Ella Hegedűs was a member of the Socialist Artists Group. Her subjects in the early forties were mainly workers, labourers and people in the suburbs. A whole story can be told around the picture Family. Judging by their gaze, the figures in the foreground of the picture field are looking at something on the ground (a dead man or animal? perhaps their own eviction?), the father tired and slack, while the young son below him has his mouth curled downwards, in a state between crying and rage. The plight of the family is suggested by the puritanical urban environment and the greyish-brown colours, in addition to their poor clothing. Above the woman's shoulders, the figure of two walking nuns seems to appear, to whom our gaze is drawn through the child's rust-red dress and then through the figure painted in the same colour on the right edge of the picture.