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A companion to Lieutenant Williams’ First World War painting of Monchy-le-Preux, this painting depicts the ruined village of Calonne in Belgium, west of Lens and south-west of Loos. Situated just behind the British front line on the Western Front, Calonne was close to the battlefields of Loos (1915) and Arras (1917) in the Flanders Sector of the Western Front. In the snow-covered landscape, a group of British Tommies stand in a trench of sandbags which cuts between the ruined buildings. Probably expecting an attack at close range, they are carrying their Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Rifles (SMLE) with 18-inch bayonets fixed. But the soldiers seem almost incidental to the picture: the emphasis is on the landscape and the contrasts of colour and of form.
Title
Calonne, near Loos
Date
c.1918
Medium
oil on board
Measurements
H 30.3 x W 38.5 cm
Accession number
NAM. 1998-04-50
Acquisition method
purchased from David Cohen Fine Art Ltd, 1998
Work type
Painting