General Assembly
Original Language TitleL'Assemblee Generale
Artist
Pierre Alechinsky
(Belgian, born 1927)
Date1960
MediumOil and gouache on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 53 1/8 × 82 3/4 inches (134.94 × 210.19 cm)
Framed: 54 1/16 × 83 3/4 inches (137.32 × 212.73 cm)
Framed: 54 1/16 × 83 3/4 inches (137.32 × 212.73 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object numberF84-72
Signedl.r. corner: "Alechinsky"
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DescriptionExpressionist painting with predominant colors of bright green, blue, maroon, flesh, pale yellow, and white. The imagery is generally manipulated into thirteen to fifteen roughly circular passages which read as heads in a crowd.Copyright© Pierre Alechinsky / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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