Paul Nash (1889-1946)

Paul Nash (1889-1946)
First World War Battlefield
Signed with monogram (lower right) and with possible date 1 10 17 (on right)
Pencil and washes en grisaille
12 x 18.7cm

Provenance:
The Barry M. Keene Gallery, Henley on Thames, 26 January 1996;
The Collection of Tom Coates, PPNEAC (1941-2023) (Lots 303-313)

Nash was in France in 1917, serving as an officer on the Western Front, where he witnessed the devastation of trench warfare around the Ypres Salient.