Alfred Cohen Art Foundation: gift of Muriel Hallatt
© Estate of Alfred Cohen 2020

There is less doubt about the mood of this red Polichinelle. As Hope Wolf writes, here ‘red is associated with power’, and the painting ‘encourages a connection with male brutalism’. She notes that 1963 was ‘the year that Hannah Arendt published her controversial book on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann – the book that would call the man on trial not a monster but a clown.