Ruined Country- Old Battlefield, Vimy, near La Folie Wood Art.IWMART721, Paul Nash

Ruined country- old battlefield, vimy, near la folie wood image: a landscape looking over an old battlefield near vimy in france. In the foreground the earth is carpeted with different coloured mosses and grass, heavily scarred from past shellfire. There are lines of skeletal-like trees beyond, and dramatic clouds in the sky above. There is the small shape of a bi-plane flying through the clouds near the top of the composition. Date: 1918 (First World War).