American Diplomacy
Catalog no.
0297
Year
2003
Subject
Historical
Media
Oil / Acrylic /
Oil on canvas
Size (H x W)
28 x 22 inches
Availability
For sale, Priced
Price
£675
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Signed PAUL BENEDICT BRAND. The artist's response to the War in Iraq. This was his one "political" painting and incidentally his last. [The reference to Guernica is conscious.]
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