Icarus by  John Armstrong

Icarus 1940

Dimensions: support: 533 x 375 mm

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Icarus flew too close to the sun, so that his wings, made of wax, melted, and he crashed into the sea and drowned. Armstrong made this painting at the beginning of the second world war, and imagined the world to be like Icarus on the edge of disaster, with wings already damaged. Gallery label, August 2004