Not on display
- Artist
- Edward Bawden 1903–1989
- Medium
- Watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 394 x 514 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
- Reference
- N05679
Catalogue entry
N05679 GALLABAT, GUNS FIRING ON METEMMA 1940
Inscr. ‘Edward Bawden’ b.r.
Watercolour, 15 1/2×20 1/4 (39×51).
Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
Exh: National War Pictures, National Gallery, 1945, and R.A., October–November 1945 (381).
Repr: William Coldstream, War Pictures by British Artists: Second Series: Soldiers, 1943, pl.46; Eric Newton, War through Artists' Eyes, 1945, p.14 (in colour); Richards, 1946, pl.19 (in colour).
Nos.5679–83 were painted while the artist was attached to Wingate's mission against the Italians in Abyssinia. Gallabat is on the Sudan-Abyssinia border.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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