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RICHARD GORMANTHE SECRET OF PANCHO VILLAoil on canvassigned and dated '60; titled on the reverse 59.5 ins x 54 ins; 151.1 cms x 137.2 cms Provenance:Private CollectionLiterature:Joan Murray, Naked Eye: Richard Gorman, Lake Galleries in association with Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 1990, unpaginated.Note:José Doroteo Arango, alias Francisco 'Pancho' Villa, emerged during the Mexican Revolution as head of the Division of the North. His commanding presence - paired with his tale of bandit turned general - granted him a mythic presence in the Mexican consciousness. Like a secret held in the mind of this prominent figure, this painting exhibits an alluring passion: a combination of functional shades and tiny prisms of sensuous colour, built-up in sweeping masses of thick impasto.  At once dark and luminous, it beckons the eye with its inescapable presence and raw energy. Himself a Revolutionary of sorts, "Gorman use(d) the canvas as an arena for personal combat: with him every painting (was) an upheaval, an act of physical involvement."