WOW !!! PHILIP BAWCOMBE (1906 - 2000) STUNNING WATERCOLOR BY FAMOUS SA ARTIST

WOW !!! PHILIP BAWCOMBE (1906 - 2000) STUNNING WATERCOLOR OF CATHEDERAL PEAK NATAL BY FAMOUS WWII SOUTH AFRICAN ARTIST

FRAME IS 440 X 390mm - PAINTING IS 295 X 225mm

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Philip William Bawcombe, FRSA born in London in 1906 and died in 2000, was an industrial designer, inter alia for film studios, and official South African war artist during World War II, who also produced acclaimed collections of paintings illustrating the cities of Johannesburg and Kimberley. Bawcombe went out to Southern Africa, first to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and then South Africa just prior to the outbreak of World War II. He enlisted with the South African forces, serving initially in the Middle East where he was commissioned as second in command of a camouflage unit. He was responsible for designing dummy tanks constructed on the backs of military lorries as a decoy. From 1941 to 1945 Bawcombe covered the North African and Italian Campaigns as official South African war artist. A collection of 50 of his war paintings is preserved at the Ditsong National Museum of Military History in Johannesburg.

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