Location

Country: Luxembourg
City: Luxembourg
Place: British Embassy

Born in London, Christopher R. W. Nevinson studied at St John's Wood and Slade Schools of Art. In 1912 he studied in Paris for a year. In 1914 he co-founded the London Group and issued a Futurist manifesto, ‘Vital English Art’ with Filippo Marinetti. In the First World War Nevinson served abroad with the Royal Army Medical Corps. In 1915 he participated in exhibitions of war art and Vorticism in London. His solo show at the Leicester Galleries (1916) received great acclaim. Nevinson became an Official War Artist in 1917. In the late 1930s, he was created Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur and an Associate of the Royal Academy. Suffering deep depression after the Second World War, he died in London in 1946.

Places

France, Paris

Subjects

topography, WW1 art, townscape/cityscape, Vorticism, grass, tree, hill, man, woman, World War I, road, path, pavement, house, fortification, wall, chimney

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889 - 1946)

Title

Paris Fortifications

Date

1913

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 45.00 cm, width: 60.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Mayor Gallery, March 1974

Inscription

br: C. R. Nevinson

GAC number

11024