Studies for "Gassed"
between 1918 and 1919 Imperial War Museum
About this artwork
These charcoal sketches depict soldiers in various poses, serving as preparatory studies for Sargent's monumental 1919 oil painting, Gassed. The drawings capture the exhausted, slumped forms of men suffering from the effects of mustard gas exposure during World War I.
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John Singer Sargent was commissioned as a war artist by the British War Memorials Committee in 1918. He spent months at the front lines, eventually choosing to depict the aftermath of a mustard gas attack to highlight the impersonal and brutal nature of modern chemical warfare. The resulting massive painting and these accompanying sketches remain some of the most poignant anti-war imagery of the Great War.
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Studies for "Gassed"
John Singer Sargent, between 1918 and 1919
