Re: War art, WWII
Regret did not record Antiques Roadshow, but did see it. What I found interesting was despite the paucity of technical detail within the sketch, the censor had not passed it. Now I suspect that the censor in this case was not an official censor, merely the artist's CO. The big blue cross across the whole sketch might suggest that the CO simply did not like the artist, or disapproved of unofficial/extracurricular art. Note the sketch was neither destroyed nor simply squirrelled into secure archive never to be seen again! Its very existence in private hands suggests there is a back-story that we don't know about.
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