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Stylised scene depicting four First World War soldiers lined up inside a concrete observation post, leaning up against the wall with their weapons and binoculars trained on an unseen target outside to the right. A beam of light from the narrow observation slit in the wall falls across the shadowy floor to the left.

Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester

Title

Concrete Observation Post, Mount Kemmel

Date

1919

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 47.8 x W 65.8 cm

Accession number

1920.91

Acquisition method

purchased from the Exhibition of War Paintings and Drawings, 1920

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

artist's inscription : : brc : artist's name, date : Leon 1919 / Underwood

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