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A Ruined Village in France BécordelBécourt
Presented by the artist 1919
adults
architecture
bomb damage
Bécordel-Bécourt
cart
church
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
figure
France
history
house
landscape
military: World War I
people
places
religious
religious
residential
ruins
society
townscapes / man-made features
transport: land
village
wooded
World War I - non-specific
paper unique charcoal watercolour
A Ruined Village in France: Bécordel-Bécourt
support: 308 × 478 mm
Presented by the artist 1919
<p><b>N03436</b>	A RUINED VILLAGE IN FRANCE: BéCORDEL-BéCOURT 1916–17
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Bone’ b.l.
<br/>Charcoal and wash, 11×18 1/4 (28×46·5).
<br/>Presented by the artist 1919.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> (?) <i>Drawings of the Western Front</i>, Aberdeen and Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, May–June 1917 (68), as ‘A Ruined Village in Flanders, still shelled by the Germans’; (?)<i>War Drawings and Lithographs</i>, Whitechapel Art Gallery, October–November 1917 (123), as ‘A Ruined Village in Flanders’.
<br/><i>Lit:</i> C. E. Montague, <i>The Western Front</i>, 1917, 11, at pl.9a, repr. (in colour).</p>
<p>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 <i>The Western Front</i> 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. <i>The Western Front</i>, 1917, 1, pl.49).</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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adults architecture Bécordel-Bécourt bomb damage cart church cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents figure France history house landscape military: World War I people places religious religious residential ruins society townscapes / man-made features transport: land village wooded World War I - non-specific