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| Agon VI: Wounded Warrior, 1965 Leon Golub American, 1922-2004 Lithograph Sheet: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm) Norton Simon Museum, Anonymous Gift, 1966 P.1966.07.111 © Estate of Leon Golub/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY Reproduction of this image, including downloading, is prohibited without written authorization from VAGA, 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2820, New York, NY 10118. Tel: 212-736-6666; Fax: 212-736-6767; e-mail: [email protected]; web: www.vagarights.com Not on view Leon Golub’s striking figurative work grew out of his response to the political and existential conditions of the postwar period. Using a meat cleaver, Golub aggressively scraped down the pigment on the surfaces of his large-scale paintings, ensuring that his images of global brutality were matched by the violence of his technique. Though his lithographs were smaller, the Chicago native executed them in a similar way. Golub used tusche and crayon on the stone surface which he then scraped with a razor blade and sandpaper to impose a similarly aggressive effect on his battling figures. |
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