Color Motif

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FROM THE BARNES FOUNDATION’S CATALOG

A dark gray spot with a lurid red halo forms the nucleus of Color Motif . Surrounding this spot are jagged red shapes, squiggles of black, and thin washes of light blue, all encompassed in a field of pink. The small size and intricate facture of Color Motif invite close looking and thus heightened exposure to the object and its contents: in this case, perhaps an impression of human flesh freshly wounded by gunshot. Wols, who was a German citizen, began to focus on small-scale works on paper at the outbreak of World War II, when he was interned in his adopted home of France.

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