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Label Text British painter Keith Coventry explores art history -- particularly abstraction -- and contemporary social issues in his work. From his series of "History" paintings, this work features minimal compositions that symbolize battle victories from wildly different time and situations. One commenorates a fight from Ancient Greek history, while the other mentions a brawl between English soccer fans. This is the second painting by Coventry to enter the collections. Source: Bulletin (News) Jan Feb Mar 2020
DimensionsFrame (each): 39 1/4 × 27 1/4 × 2 1/4 in. (99.7 × 69.2 × 5.7 cm)
Accession Number 2019.27.a-.b
Classificationspainting
CopyrightDACS
InscriptionsThe Sparttan Anaxibios and twelve others fought against the entire Athenian forces in 389 B.C. (placque on frame a); Seven arsenal fans fought and defeated more than twenty west ham fans in May 1982 (placque on frame b)
ProvenanceArtist. (Curt Marcus Gallery, New York); Paul and Anastasia Polydoran, Des Moines [acquired from the previous]; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 2019]

Images (2)

Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Untitled (Anaxibios: Seven Arsenal Fans)
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Robert Kushner
1993
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Richard Tuttle
2001
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Richard Tuttle
2001
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Richard Tuttle
2001
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Richard Tuttle
2001
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Richard Tuttle
2001
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Robert Rauschenberg
1958
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Jim Hodges
2006
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines.
Zarina
2010