£2,268
Scottish Paintings & Sculpture | 738
Auction: Scottish Paintings & Sculpture
Signed and numbered XVIII in pen to margin, etching, from a numbered edition of 76 plus three additional proofs
Literature: Martin Hardie, Etchings and Dry Points from 1902-1924 by James McBey, P.& D. Colnalghi & Co. Ltd, London, 1925, no.186
Note: During World War One McBey initially was sent to Rouen with the Army Printing and Stationery Office, but in 1917 was appointed an official war artist, and was commissioned with an Expeditionary Force to the Middle East. During a reconnaissance in the Sinai Desert he produced a celebrated series of etchings, including Strange Signals, which capture the heat of the climate and the intrepid nature of the explorers.