TitleFugit Amor
Artist
Louis Finkelstein
(American, 1923 - 2000)
Date1983-1984
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 56 × 68 in.
Framed: 57 1/2 × 69 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.
SignedSigned lower right: "Fugit Amor"; on verso, top stretch cross bar: "Fugit Amor, Etc. 1983-84"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, December 5, 1984
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1984.35
Label TextThe artist has stated that this painting was inspired by his viewing of the exhibition of August Rodin's Gates of Hell at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, especially the sections known as "Fugit Amor" and "Prodigal Group."
