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Figures in an Air-Raid Shelter
Artist: Robert Colquhoun (1914 - 1962)
Location: Imperial War Museum
Date: 1941
Materials: oil on panel
Dimensions: 25.4 x 50.2cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £10,467 (Total: £22,355)
Vendor: Christie's
Review number: 5751 (2006)
Provenance:
Mercury Gallery, London; Ewan Mundy, Glasgow; Peter Nahum Collection; Christie's, 2006.
Description:
The artist uses the tight and brutal enclosure of the air raid shelter to create a setting that is both theatrical in its design and emotional complexity. Is the figure on the left protecting the space or keeping order? The cramped discomfort is illustrated in the waking figure at the bottom.
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