Title
Japanese soldiers killed D-day
1945
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1945
- Media category
- Drawing
- Materials used
- pencil on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 22.4 x 32.9 cm sight
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r., pencil "Frank Hodgkinson ‘45".
- Credit
- Gift of Kate Hodgkinson, the artist's widow 2004
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 105.2004
- Copyright
- © Estate of Frank Hodgkinson/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Frank Hodgkinson
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About
D-Day, Balikpapan is a study of the corpses of two Japanese soldiers. Drawn in Balikpapan, Borneo, the artist drew his subject in haste - he was discovered and shot at as he finished the drawing.
© Australian Art Department, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2004
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Jill Sykes, Look, 'The quick and the dead', pg. 46, Sydney, Jun 2006, 46 (colour illus.).
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