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Mark Descriptioninscribed in pencil, below image, L.L.: trial proof VI inscribed in pencil, below image, L.C.: Massacre of the Innocents signed and dated in pencil, below image, L.R.: Peterdi 1954
Accession NumberGift of Dr. Steven Conant in memory of Mrs. H.L. Conant
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteDr. Steven Conant, Indianapolis, Indiana; given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2002.
Peterdi became a naturalized citizen in 1944 and enlisted in the army. He was assigned to US Army Intelligence as a cartographer attached to the 7th Army fighting in Europe, and following the end of World War II in 1945, he hunted down war criminals in his native Hungary. The memories of war haunted the apocalyptic surrealist landscapes he produced in the years following his return to printmaking in 1947.
“As a soldier I saw the continent I came from—France, Italy, Germany, Austria and Hungary—beat-up, bloody, submerged in misery, bitterness and hate.”
Gabor Peterdi, 1963
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