
Not on display
- Artist
- Edward Bawden 1903–1989
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 464 × 591 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
- Reference
- N05678
Display caption
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
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