Edward Ardizzone

Soldiers Holding Up Rosaries to be Blessed at a Papal Audience

1944

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Artist: Edward Ardizzone 1900–1979
Medium: Watercolour and ink on paper
Dimensions: Support: 181 × 187 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
Reference: N05673

Catalogue entry

N05673 SOLDIERS HOLDING UP ROSARIES TO BE BLESSED AT A PAPAL AUDIENCE 1944

Inscr. ‘EA.’ b.r.

Watercolour, pen and ink (sight), 7 1/8×7 3/8 (18×19).
Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.

Exh: National War Pictures, R.A., October–November 1945 (789).

Painted in September 1944. The painting records the scene at one of a number of Papal audiences that the Pope gave to English soldiers billeted in or near Rome (letter from the artist, 7 October 1959).

Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I

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