Vietcong

  • SIGNED
  • c.1968
By CARUSO, Bruno (1927 - 2018)
c.1968. Original engraving. Printed in black on Fabbiano mold-made paper; sheet size 50cm x 70cm (ca 20" x 27"); image area 35cm x 36cm (ca. 14" x 14-1/2"). Signed in pencil lower right; additionally inscribed, "A Giovanni i Gebbe Scianna" [i.e., Jonathan & Jean Shahn]; titled illegibly lower left. Faint foxing and soil to margins (well away from printed area); Near Fine. Edition not stated.

A striking image by Sicilian painter, illustrator and printmaker Bruno Caruso (1927-1918). Much of Caruso's work during the late 1960s and early 1970s was intensely political, inspired by social justice movements around the world including anti-colonial movements in Africa, the civil rights movement in the U.S., and, as here, opposition to the Vietnam War.

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