Paul Nash's Vanguard Drawings of the War

Artist Paul Nash is renowned for visceral depictions of the horrors of trench warfare during the First World War. His earliest images of the war however were painted in spring 1917 on convalescent leave. These works were altogether gentler in tone though by no means sugar coated. The work leaving the trenches offered at Bonham's modern British and Irish art sale in London this month is from a vector drawings that Nash exhibited in London's Gupul Gallery in May 1917.