Victor Olson
African Children Suffer Famine and Despair in Hot Colors - Africa is Bleeding, 1965-1975
Watercolor and graphite on heavy watercolor paper
18 × 15 in / 45.7 × 38.1 cm
$ 6,000.00
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An intense and powerful study of five undernourished and perhaps starving African children partly superimposed and partly integrated into the silhouette of the African continent. The artist employs a technique...
An intense and powerful study of five undernourished and perhaps starving African children partly superimposed and partly integrated into the silhouette of the African continent. The artist employs a technique that enables the red-orange colors to literally show the African continent bleeding. Signed lower right and inscribed on verso. Most likely for a newsstand magazine illustration of famine and poverty in Africa. Unframed