Chris Beetles Gallery

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Allied Landings

Thomas Hennell (1903-1945)

Price

£350

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

4 x 5 ¼ inches

Provenance

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

Exhibited

'Thomas Hennell: A Love of the Land', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, March-April 2026

On 11 June 1944 Thomas Hennell (and Edward Ardizzone) left Portsmouth for Normandy to record the allied positions, arriving only five days after the D-Day landings. Hennell sketched the immediate area and aftermath, around and to the south of the beaches, including the village of Ver-su-Mer and the German radar installation at Douvres.
Hennell then moved inland and recorded allied activity at Bénouville and Ranville and then ultimately, at the relief of Caen.

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