War Landscape (circa 1943)

Georges Rouault

bodycolour, with black chalk on paper

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Classification:

Drawing and Watercolour

Materials:

Bodycolour, Black chalk

Physical Object Description:

War landscape; semi-abstract image comprising a church and other buildings on a hill Bodycolour, with black chalk.

Technique:

Drawn

Dimensions:

30.6 x 19 cm

Accession Number:

1943,0710.37

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1943

Scheme:

The Foreign Fund (1925 -1965)

Ownership history:

Roger Fry (1866-1934); purchased by A. M. Hind (1880-1957) for the Contemporary Art Society from its Foreign Fund, 1935; presented to Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1943

Relationship:

Arthur Mayger 'A. M.' Hind Roger Eliot Fry Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Subject:

World War Two

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