Artist Charles Pears: Searchlight Practice, 1940

Artist Charles Pears (1873-1958): Searchlight Practice, 1940

 
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Charles Pears (1873-1958):
Searchlight Practice, 1940
Framed (ref: 1120)
Signed

Oil on panel
20 x 14 in. (50.8 x 35.6 cm)

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Provenance: Laporte Corporate Collection 2002; Private Collection.

Exhibited: WW2 - War Pictures by British Artists, Morley College London, 28 October -23 November 2016, cat 11.

Literature: WW2 - War Pictures by British Artists, Edited by Sacha Llewellyn & Paul Liss, July 2016, cat 11, page 47.

Pears was an Official War Artist for the Admiralty during WWI, a position he repeated during WW2.