Matania
"With the British Officer in the Ypres Salient." Afternoon tea in a ruined farmstead. "With the British Army on the Western Front" - published in 1916 for Tatler and Sphere.
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Artist:FORTUNINO MATANIA, RI (1881-1963). One of the most accomplished realistic illustrators and artists of his time, his wartime work was immensely popular and appeared in nearly every major newsmagazine, Allied, neutral and Central Powers alike. Literally tens of millions of readers saw wartime events through the medium of Matania's weekly illustrations and, as such, he played an important role in defining people's mental image of what Great War battlefield scenes and soldiers looked like.
Ref: 3214
Medium: Photogravure
Size: 11in x 16in
Framed: No
Status: Signed in pencil
Provenance:
Price: £225.00
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