My Batman
My Batman
£825
In December 1917 Augustus John was assigned to the Canadian infantry as a war artist. The principal outcome was to be a huge mural for Lord Beverbrook, but like so many of his ambitious projects it remained unfinished. However, he did make a number of fine portraits of his companions, many of these brown ink drawings in sketchbooks.
This example is a portrait study of his batman (a personal servant or attendant assigned to a commissioned officer), used for a later painting, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Dimensions:
Height
14 cm / 5 "
Width
10 cm
/ 4"
Framed height
39 cm
/ 15 1⁄2"
Framed width
36 cm
/ 14 "
Year
1917
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Signed
Inccribed My Batman
Provenance
Sir Roy Strong, David Walker, Arthur Youdell(?)
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