The Road from Arras to Bapaume. Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson.

Jan 27, 2015 | Videos

Signed and dated lower right in pencil by Nevinson. First exhibited Leicester Galleries, London, March 1918. “Nevinson first learned lithography in 1912 … All Nevinson’s lithographs were made on stone, not zinc or transfer paper. ‘I got back (to London in 1918) to find that a bomb had fallen on the printing works where my lithographs were kept and my stones were damaged. The reason for the extra ridge on my lithograph of the Arras-Bapaume Road is because I had to put it in to cover the injury done to my original stone”

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