Catalogue entry
N04245 Recto: CAMOUFLAGED GRENADIER 1922–3
Verso: TWO COMPOSITION STUDIES FOR BURGHCLERE CHAPEL
Inscr. on back ‘Camouflaged Grenadier. 9’ b.c.
Pencil and wash (squared for painting), 19 7/8×14 5/8 (50·5×36·5).
Purchased from the Goupil Gallery (Duveen Drawings Fund) 1927.
Exh: Goupil Gallery, February 1927 (5).
A study for the soldier seen in the foreground of the fourth arched-top painting on the north wall of Burghclere Chapel, overlooking the altar. The artist knew this man; he was a particularly daring character and was killed during the fighting in Macedonia (information from Gilbert Spencer, 26 October 1961).
On the verso are two preliminary watercolour studies for the east wall composition of the Burghclere Chapel murals which appear to be superimposed over a third pencil sketch of a military camp, in which tents, etc., are indicated on the skyline. The two watercolour studies show one feature, that of the soldier seated between two mules (on the left), common to both and to the final painting in the chapel. Otherwise they bear little obvious relationship to the finished composition. The pure landscape background which appears in both is considerably reduced in the finished composition… (read more)
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