Edward Bawden

Cairo, the Citadel: On the Roof of the Officers’ Mess

c.1941

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Artist
Edward Bawden 1903–1989
Medium
Watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 464 x 591 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
Reference
N05678

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Bawden trained as a printmaker, graphic designer and illustrator at the Royal College of Art. These watercolours were made during the Second World War, when Bawden served as an Official War Artist. He spent two years in the Middle East, when he wrote: ‘Work proceeds nicely under the double disadvantages of lack of dense shade and an oven heat, not the mention the infliction of flies... ‘

Gallery label, September 2004

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Catalogue entry

N05678 CAIRO, THE CITADEL: ON THE ROOF OF THE OFFICERS' MESS c. 1941
 
Inscr. ‘Edward Bawden’ b.r.

Pen and watercolour (sight), 18 1/4×23 1/4 (46·5×59), on paper, 20 1/2×25 1/2 (52×65).

Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
Exh: National War Pictures, National Gallery, 1945, and R.A., October–November 1945 (375).


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

British War Art

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