Skaters, Goes, Netherlands

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Skaters, Goes, Netherlands

Thomas Hennell (1903-1945)

Price

£850

Signed

Inscribed 'Skaters, Goes' on reverse
Admiralty stamp on reverse

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

12 ½ x 19 ¾ inches

Provenance

Michael MacLeod, Hennell's biographer, via the Artist's Estate

Exhibited

'Thomas Hennell: A Love of the Land', Chris Beetles Gallery, London, March-April 2026

As an Official War Artist, Hennell spent most of January and February 1945 in the Netherlands with the RNVR whilst the Allies continued their advance into Germany.
'Hennell described the harsh winter of January 1945 as "unpropitious for outdoor work". But as Edward Bawden remarked to Edward Ardizzone: "Tom... thinks no more of physical discomfort than a polar bear."'
Jessica Kilburn, Thomas Hennell. The Land and the Mind, London: Pimpernel Press, 2021, page 298

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