€100 - €300
Two beautiful vintage original watercolour on paper paintings by the English artist Innes Meo (b.1886 - d.1967), dating to the late 1940's. Feature charming studies of the English countryside through a subtle palette and delicate brushstrokes. One signed bottom right and dated to 1947.
Working as a painter before the first world war, Luigi Alfonso Rocco (‘Gigi’) Innes Meo joined the Artists’ Rifles in 1915 and was later commissioned into the Royal Sussex Regiment as a subaltern. He loathed the war. returned to the front only to be captured by the Germans in early 1918, spending the rest of the war as a prisoner. A plan by the Ministry of Information to employ Meo as a war artist was thwarted by his capture, although the Ministry was able to supply him with painting materials in his captivity. After the war, he became an art teacher at Bedales School, and developed an increasingly rich use of media. His later work, particularly of industrial and river subjects painted during the 1940s, shows heavily worked watercolour combined with smokey charcoal drawing on coarse, toned paper, creating soft, dense and powerful images.
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