Paul Nash Wire 1918-19, Paul Nash

Correspondence in the imperial war museum between nash and the ministry of information reveal that the picture was substantially complete towards the end of 1918 and that nash planned, but did not execute, a lithograph from the design (iwm war artists archive: iwm ww1 267a-6). Image: a devastated landscape, pocked with rain-filled shell-holes. A shattered tree stands to the right, the tree and the whole foreground dominated by a dense web of barbed wire. The sky is a dramatic contrast between white and purplish red coloured clouds. Date: 1918 (First World War).