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Provenance
The collection of Professor Torvald Åkesson (1910-1990).
Exhibited
Addis Ababa, Retrospective 1961, no. 20, illust (b/w) page 19.
In his introduction to the Retrospective Exhibition catalogue the noted Ethiopian scholar and close friend of the artist Dr. Richard Pankhurst states:
"By 1960 the lines are no longer bright. They darken and take on symbolic meaning: witness the cobweb of lines over the hideous face of the third and harshest version of "War" painted in 1960."
Prof Åkesson worked for the Ethio-Swedish Institute of Building Technology in Addis Ababa from 1960 to 1963.