Youth mourning is a return to his early style of painting. The painting is a response to the horrors of the first world war and, in particular, the death of clausen’s own daughter’s fiancé. He uses the nakedness of the figure and the starkness of the barren landscape to emphasise the grief and emptiness of death. Image: a naked young woman, personifying youth, kneels in a grief-stricken attitude before a wooden cross marking a grave. In the distance are the flooded craters of a battlefield. Object Type: painting. Date: 1916 (First World War). Dimensions: height: 91.4 cm (35.9 in) ; width: 91.4 cm (35.9 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Imperial War Museum London. Clausen, George (Sir) (RA) - Youth Mourning
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