333:
153:(1921), that a British officer described the scenery of the battle in these words: "‘I remember an officer saying to me, Paint the Somme? I could do it from memory – just a flat horizon line and mud-holes and water, and the stumps of a few battered trees.’ but one could not paint the smell.". Orpen also described what he had seen vividly, as reflected in this work: "A hand lying on the duckboards, a Bosche and a Highlander locked in a deadly embrace at the edge of Highwood; the 'Cough-Drop' with the stench coming from its watery bottom; the shell-holes with the shapes of bodies faintly showing through the putrid water – all these things made one think terribly of what human beings had been through."
31:
145:
campaign, from June to
November 1917. The offensive took a massive toil of British and German lives, while the Allies had just advanced five miles at the end of the campaign. The painting depicts the desolate landscape of a battlefield, with grey skies, the remains of the trenches filled with water,
370:
279:
332:
271:
287:
231:
414:
122:
The painting follows the same pattern of brutal realism of those he had created the previous year, while in France, when he witnessed the
399:
363:
30:
224:
126:. In 1918, he was doing more allegorical paintings on the subject of the war, but he still made some realistic works.
356:
255:
394:
142:
409:
404:
217:
185:
106:. The painting has the dimensions of 63.5 cm by 76.2 cm. It belongs to the collection of the
389:
186:
Sir
William Orpen - The Official Artist of the First World War, Daily Art Magazine, 7 February 2017
123:
102:. It was one of the series of paintings that he made when he was a British official war artist in
311:
174:
41:
340:
383:
305:
240:
99:
59:
103:
69:
63.5 cm × 76.2 cm (25.0 in × 30.0 in)
146:
and a corpse lying at the right, while a heavily damaged tree is at the left.
130:
134:
138:
85:
111:
81:
98:
is an oil-on-canvas painting created in 1918 by the Irish artist
209:
107:
77:
213:
344:
129:
This painting takes his name from the municipality of
339:
This article about a twentieth-century painting is a
141:, which had been completely destroyed as part of the
298:
247:
73:
65:
55:
47:
37:
23:
170:
168:
166:
364:
225:
8:
280:The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors
371:
357:
232:
218:
210:
195:
193:
20:
288:To the Unknown British Soldier in France
162:
149:Orpen wrote on his memoirs of the war,
272:A Peace Conference at the Quai d'Orsay
7:
329:
327:
343:. You can help Knowledge (XXG) by
14:
331:
29:
201:An Onlooker in France 1917-1919
151:An Onlooker in France 1917–1919
1:
415:20th-century painting stubs
431:
400:Paintings by William Orpen
326:
28:
16:Painting by William Orpen
256:Dead Germans in a Trench
306:Richard Caulfield Orpen
124:Battle of the Somme
352:
351:
321:
320:
312:Charles Caulfield
91:
90:
42:Sir William Orpen
422:
373:
366:
359:
335:
328:
234:
227:
220:
211:
204:
197:
188:
183:
177:
175:Zonnebecke, Tate
172:
33:
21:
430:
429:
425:
424:
423:
421:
420:
419:
380:
379:
378:
377:
324:
322:
317:
294:
243:
238:
208:
207:
199:William Orpen,
198:
191:
184:
180:
173:
164:
159:
120:
17:
12:
11:
5:
428:
426:
418:
417:
412:
407:
402:
397:
395:1918 paintings
392:
382:
381:
376:
375:
368:
361:
353:
350:
349:
336:
319:
318:
316:
315:
309:
302:
300:
296:
295:
293:
292:
284:
276:
268:
260:
251:
249:
245:
244:
239:
237:
236:
229:
222:
214:
206:
205:
189:
178:
161:
160:
158:
155:
119:
116:
89:
88:
75:
71:
70:
67:
63:
62:
57:
53:
52:
49:
45:
44:
39:
35:
34:
26:
25:
15:
13:
10:
9:
6:
4:
3:
2:
427:
416:
413:
411:
410:Cities in art
408:
406:
405:War paintings
403:
401:
398:
396:
393:
391:
388:
387:
385:
374:
369:
367:
362:
360:
355:
354:
348:
346:
342:
337:
334:
330:
325:
314:(grandfather)
313:
310:
307:
304:
303:
301:
297:
290:
289:
285:
282:
281:
277:
274:
273:
269:
266:
265:
261:
258:
257:
253:
252:
250:
246:
242:
241:William Orpen
235:
230:
228:
223:
221:
216:
215:
212:
202:
196:
194:
190:
187:
182:
179:
176:
171:
169:
167:
163:
156:
154:
152:
147:
144:
143:Passchendaele
140:
136:
132:
127:
125:
117:
115:
113:
109:
105:
101:
100:William Orpen
97:
96:
87:
83:
79:
76:
72:
68:
64:
61:
58:
54:
50:
46:
43:
40:
36:
32:
27:
22:
19:
345:expanding it
338:
323:
286:
278:
270:
263:
262:
254:
200:
181:
150:
148:
128:
121:
94:
93:
92:
60:oil painting
18:
390:1918 in art
291:(1923-1927)
118:Description
104:World War I
384:Categories
157:References
66:Dimensions
308:(brother)
264:Zonnebeke
248:Paintings
131:Zonnebeke
95:Zonnebeke
24:Zonnebeke
135:Flanders
74:Location
299:Related
139:Belgium
86:England
283:(1919)
275:(1919)
267:(1918)
259:(1918)
203:(1921)
112:London
82:London
38:Artist
133:, in
341:stub
108:Tate
78:Tate
56:Type
51:1918
48:Year
110:in
386::
192:^
165:^
137:,
114:.
84:,
80:,
372:e
365:t
358:v
347:.
233:e
226:t
219:v
Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Additional terms may apply.
