Peinture criminelle 4–56
1956
- Medium
- oil paint (paint), paint
- Dimensions
- 122 × 91.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-108383
A decade after the Second World War, Armando embarked on a series of paintings about the criminal nature of war, with a gritty surface resembling clotted blood and grimly grinning heads. His view of man offered little hope and he was accused of ‘nihilism.’ This was a serious charge in the Cold War era because it would undermine the morality of the free West, playing into the hands of Communism.
Provenance
Gift of Tony de Meijere, Amstelveen
Registry history
- 1956 — Recorded in the collection of Rijksmuseum
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