Untitled
Wols, an antifascist German living in France, was nonetheless incarcerated as an alien by the French government from 1939–40. This watercolor was made shortly after he was released. It reflects his wartime anxieties: a mutilated figure holding an olive branch flies toward an amalgam of beings, akin to an airborne, Surrealist Raft of the Medusa.
Artwork Details
- Title: Untitled
- Artist: Wols (German, Berlin 1913–1951 Paris)
- Date: ca. 1940–41
- Medium: Watercolor and opaque watercolor and pen and black ink on blue paper, mounted on paper
- Dimensions: 9 1/2 × 12 1/4 in. (24.1 × 31.1 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, 2006
- Object Number: 2006.32.65
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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