Artist: Christo Coetzee
Date: 1987
Museum: University of Pretoria Museums (Pretoria, South Africa)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
This painting titled, Harlequins Homage to Guernica is by the South African artist Christo Coetzee (1929-2000). Harlequins, Homage to Guernica is a painting of five clown-like figures and a friendly looking hellhound (a supernatural black dog from folklore) that appears to dance across this large Canvas painting. The work pays homage to the vast painting Guernica (1937) by the Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso which was created in the wake of the 1937 fascist- his work became a defining image of the horror and atrocities of war. Coetzee saw Picasso
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