Untitled II [Gallipoli soldier with barbed wire]

Place Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Dardanelles, Gallipoli
Accession Number ART91980
Collection type Art
Measurement Overall: 91.4 x 121.8 cm
Object type Painting
Physical description oil, rusty barbed wire, nails, staples, sgraffito on board
Maker Pugh, Clifton
Place made Australia
Date made 1990
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: AWM Licensed copyright

Description

Depicts the skeletal body of a wounded soldier laying on the red ground with one bandaged hand grasping his rifle. The figure is encircled with real barbed wire.