Wednesday 25 May 2022
Sir William Orpen, KBE RA RHA, Irish 18781931 - Kamarad, 1919; ink and...
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Sir William Orpen, KBE RA RHA,
Irish 18781931 -
Kamarad, 1919;
ink and pencil on paper, titled and dated on upper edge 'Kamarad 28th June 1919', 30.9 x 21 cm (unframed)
Provenance: with Abbott & Holder, London; the collection of an important UK political cartoon editor and thence by descent
Literature: William Feaver, 'Masters of Caricature: From Hogarth and Gillray to Scarfe and Levine', 1981, p.142 (according to the inscription on the front of the mount)
Note: 'Kamarard' was used by German soldiers as a cry of surrender in the First World War. Another work of the same title utilising the work and gesture is now in the collection of the Imperial War Museum.
Numbered K01915 on the reverse of the mount.
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