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The Harvest is Ripe

Raemaekers, Louis, 1916, Chromolithograph
The Harvest is Ripe
The Harvest is Ripe
The Harvest is Ripe
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Item no
32952
Title
The Harvest is Ripe
Description
"In the early days of August 1914, when the whitened cornfields of Flanders should have been falling beneath the hands of the reaper, man was working for another Harvester, and reddening the countryside with murdered swathes of humanity. It was only natural that an artist should depict Death in the same guise as did his great predecessor Holbein in his 'Dance of Death'. This cartoon is of interest as showing the artist's earlier method of work, namely, with the pen, a form which he soon abandoned for a freer and more powerful instrument."
Artist / maker
Date
1916
Size
34.4 x 23.9 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.