© Estate of the artist c/o Lefevre, London
Blue Baby: Blitz over Britain
Artist: Edward Burra (1905 - 1976)
Location: Imperial War Museum
Date: 1941
Materials: watercolour & gouache on paper
Dimensions: 67.5 x 100.5cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £20,000 (Total: £81,000)
Vendor: Lefevre Contemporary Art
Review number: 3927 (1993)
Provenance:
Conrad Aiken, USA.
Description:
The painting depicts Burra's response to the Second World War as he observed if from Rye, his birthplace. It depicts a monstrous harpy with red eyes and claws descending from a red sky; a swirling plume of black smoke rising from the horizon indicates where the harpy has already struck. Rye was part of the chain of radar stations along the south coast which the Luftwaffe attempted to destroy during the winter of 1940-1941.
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