The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Studies of a Soldier Drinking, for Gassed (recto); Studies of a Male Nude (verso)

Studies of a Soldier Drinking, for Gassed (recto); Studies of a Male Nude (verso)

1918–19
Location: not on view

Description

In 1919, Sargent exhibited a large painting at the Royal Academy of Art in London called Gassed. The Dressing Station at Le Bac and on the Doullers-Arras Road. The British War Memorial Committee had commissioned the work from him as a way of honoring the sacrifices of World War I. The subject was based on a scene the artist actually witnessed during his visit to battlefields in France in 1918. This drawing is a study for one of the soldiers in the painting, which now hangs in the Imperial War Museum in London.
  • Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., New York
    Mrs. Harold Fallon, Cleveland
    [Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc., New York]
    Mrs. Harold Fallon, Cleveland
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1997.256