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David Cohen Fine Art was founded in 1984 and specialises in paintings, drawings and sculpture from the Great War, 1914-1918.

David Cohen has had five major art exhibitions, the two most recent of these were held at the National Army Museum in London. He sells worldwide to museums and regiments as well as to private collectors and his collection represents an important part of the history of the Great War. Within the website, there are landscapes showing the devastation wrought by war and everyday scenes of army life in and out of the trenches and on the Home Front. Portraits and sculpture are also included together with moments of humour in the cartoons drawn from the grim nature of life at the front.

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November 2008

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Featured Work

S. J. JESSETT

A group of paintings done by an artist who signed himself S. J. Jessett.  It has not been possible to trace him, so he may have been using a nom de plume.  No doubt he was a member of a balloon section in France and Flanders and he produced a small collection of paintings and drawings done around the Salient in 1917.

The two balloon basket watercolours are so utterly convincing and finely observed, with all sorts of details of basket weave, ropes and other bits and pieces, that the artist must have not only observed them at first-hand, but known how they all fitted together.

The RAF Museum in London has two paintings that are almost identical but with different dates and slight variations in their contents.

Illustrated Article

Magdeburg Prisoner of War Camp Silhouettes

This is a collection of silhouettes from two albums containing portraits of some 294 officers. They include 15 British, 113 Belgian, 104 French and 43 Russian, nearly all of them captured by the Germans in the very early months of the war in 1914. They were deposited in the Magdeburg Prisoner of War Camp, situated between Hanover and Berlin in Germany.

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• Magdeburg Prisoner of War Camp Silhouettes
• Gunner F. J. Mears, Royal Garrison Artillery
• 529456 Private SIDNEY DENNANT MOSS, RBA (1884-1946)
• Major JOHN EMPSON TINDALL, MC, b.1885
• Captain GILBERT HOLIDAY, Royal Field Artillery (1879-1937)
• JOYCE DENNYS (1893-1991)