Not on display
- Artist
- Sir Muirhead Bone 1876–1953
- Medium
- Charcoal and watercolour on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 308 × 478 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the artist 1919
- Reference
- N03436
Catalogue entry
N03436 A RUINED VILLAGE IN FRANCE: BéCORDEL-BéCOURT 1916–17
Inscr. ‘Bone’ b.l.
Charcoal and wash, 11×18 1/4 (28×46·5).
Presented by the artist 1919.
Exh: (?) Drawings of the Western Front, Aberdeen and Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, May–June 1917 (68), as ‘A Ruined Village in Flanders, still shelled by the Germans’; (?)War Drawings and Lithographs, Whitechapel Art Gallery, October–November 1917 (123), as ‘A Ruined Village in Flanders’.
Lit: C. E. Montague, The Western Front, 1917, 11, at pl.9a, repr. (in colour).
Of the work exhibited at the Whitechapel Art Gallery the catalogue states that ‘the Germans were still shelling the district when the sketch was made’; in The Western Front it is said that ‘our advances of last year and this have now placed the village out of range of the German guns’. Bone also drew ‘The Ruined Tower of Bécordel-Bécourt’ (repr. The Western Front, 1917, 1, pl.49).
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I
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