Chris Beetles Gallery

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France 1944

Thomas Hennell (1903-1945)

Price

£750

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

8 x 13 inches

Provenance

Michael MacLeod (Hennell biographer) via the Estate of Thomas Hennell

Exhibited

'Thomas Hennell, 1903-1945. Kent Artist, Painter of Rural Life; Circle of Ravilious and Bawden', Folkestone Art Trust,
University Centre, Folkestone, April 2012, no 50;
'Chris Beetles Summer Show', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, 2012, no 40;
'Thomas Hennell: A Love of the Land', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, March-April 2026

As an Official War Artist, Hennell was deployed for three month attachments. From June-September 1944 he was in Normandy on the beaches immediately after the allied landings and in the villages between there and Caen. From September-December 1944 he was with the First Canadian Army, as they cleared the German-occupied Channel coast to the east of the Normandy landings, from Rouen to Dunkirk.

Mounted

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