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Wipers

Snaffles (Charlie Johnson Payne) (1884-1967)

Price
£4,500
Signed
Signed and inscribed with title
Medium
Watercolour with pencil
Dimensions
15 ½ x 9 inches
Exhibited
'Chris Beetles Summer Show 2025', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, June-September 2025, no 98

This watercolour refers to one of the major and brutal battles fought in Ypres, West Flanders in 1914 during the First World War. ‘Wipers’ was the Tommy slang for the French city which was catastophically damaged, the building behind the British soldier is the medieval Cloth Hall. This, the original watercolour, was reproduced as a contemporary print.

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