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The Execution

Merlyn Oliver Evans

Art Funded
1981
Dimensions
82 x 119 cm
Vendor
New Art Centre
The subject is based on a gruesome sight which the artist witnessed - the body of Mussolini suspended by the feet in the town square in Milan after the dictator's execution on 28 April 1945

Provenance

The artist's widow

Oil on canvas

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