Peter Back, a Condemned War Criminal At Rheinbeck Prison, 1945

Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)

SIGNED
WATERCOLOUR, INK, PENCIL AND WHITE CHALK ON TINTED PAPER
13 1/2 X 10 INCHES
LITERATURE: GORDON SMITH, MERVYN PEAKE, A PERSONAL MEMOIR,
LONDON: GOLLANCZ 1984, PAGE 122, WHERE IT IS INCORRECTLY
DESCRIBED AS 'CONDEMNED CELL AT BELSEN WITH NAZI WAR
CRIMINAL'
EXHIBITED: 'THE ILLUSTRATORS. THE BRITISH ART OF ILLUSTRATION
1900-2016', NOVEMBER 2016-JANUARY 2017, NO 104

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