Blood and Wounds

A stream of blood connects the head suspended in the sky with a bleak scene of snow-covered earth with spots of blood. This barren landscape, evoking suffering caused by war, could be a battlefield, a symbolic evocation of World War II.


Winter Landscape
"Winterlandschaft"
1970. Watercolor, gouache, and graphite pencil on paper
16 7/8 x 14 in. (42.9 x 35.6 cm)
Denise and Andrew Saul Fund, 1995
1995.14.5

 

 

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