Albert Richards

Withdrawing from the Battery after the Battery’s Guns Had Been Destroyed.

1944

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Artist: Albert Richards 1919–1945
Medium: Graphite, crayon, gouache and wax on paper
Dimensions: Support: 540 × 737 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946
Reference: N05727

Catalogue entry

N05727 WITHDRAWING FROM THE BATTERY AFTER THE BATTERY'S GUNS HAD BEEN DESTROYED. THE M.O. SETS UP HIS R.A.P. IN A BOMB CRATER 1944

Inscr. ‘Albert Richards H— 2’ b.l.
Watercolour, 21 1/4×29 (53·5×73·5).
Presented by the War Artists' Advisory Committee 1946.
Exh: National War Pictures, National Gallery, 1945, and R.A., October–November 1945 (823).
Repr: Robin Ironside, Painting since 1939, 1947, facing p.32.

Like N05726 this watercolour was almost certainly done from memory; it depicts a situation four hours after the launching of the spearhead attack by advance guard paratroopers on D-Day. Prisoners have been captured and the wounded are being treated at a forward Regimental Aid Post.

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