Sir Muirhead Bone

A Soldiers’ Cemetery at Lihons, May 1917

1917

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Artist: Sir Muirhead Bone 1876–1953
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Dimensions: Support: 382 x 565 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the artist 1919
Reference: N03442

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N03442 A SOLDIERS' CEMETERY AT LIHONS, MAY 1917 1917

Inscr. ‘Bone’ b.r.
Charcoal on cream paper, 14 1/2×21 (37×53·5).
Presented by the artist 1919.
Exh: War Drawings and Lithographs, Whitechapel Art Gallery, October–November 1917 (168).
Lit: C.E. Montague, The Western Front, 1917, II, at pl.20, repr. (in colour).

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

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