© Hughie O'Donoghue
Incident near Huppy
Artist: Hughie O'Donoghue (born 1953)
Location: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Date: 1999-2002
Materials: oil on canvas incorporating photographic inkjet on gami tissue
Dimensions: 209 x 181cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £9,500 (Total: £18,000)
Vendor: Purdy Hicks Gallery
Review number: 5200 (2003)
Provenance:
The artist; Purdy Hicks Gallery.
Description:
One of a series of works by the artist about France during the Second World War and the retreat of 1940. Huppy is a small rural town in Belgium, and the artist has used an archive photograph of a burning truck to investigate the emotive theme of an abandoned landscape. The photograph is positioned in the top-right of the canvas and is used as a trigger to consider the expressive and formal qualities of the remainder of the picture surface.
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