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Refugees

Frank Archer (1912-1995)

Price
£4,500
Signed
Signed and dated 1940
Medium
Watercolour and bodycolour
Dimensions
15 ½ x 12 ½ inches
Exhibited
'A Century of British Art: 1900-1945', Chris Beetles Gallery, 21 June-17 July 2021, No 181

Refugees was produced in 1940, by which time Archer had joined the Royal Pioneer Corps. If its location is inexplicit, it clearly draws on the settings of his Italian images, while intensifying their mood, through the use of a stronger palette and a thrusting, dynamic vertical composition. In each of its elements, down to the fragility of the fence, it epitomises the disruption of war.

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