NEVINSON, C. R. W.

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Modern War Paintings. First edition, signed issue, number 63 of 75 copies signed by the artist and publisher and including an original etching, Returning to the Trenches, signed and dated 1916 by the artist. It is genuinely rare to find the etching and book together; we have only had one other copy."In Returning to the Trenches he depicts the column of marching men as oppressed figures, caught up in a wearying and relentless mechanism over which they have no control. Futurist 'lines of force' and multiple motion are employed to convey a very un-Futurist sense of disillusion with the futility and waste of combat, and in subsequent paintings Nevinson confirmed that he saw the Great War essentially as a tragic event. Bleak, outspoken and often angry, his paintings of 1915-16 are among the masterpieces of his career, bravely opposing the prevailing jingoistic tendency" (Turner, p. 15).

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