Sotheby’s posted a record for the artist CRW Nevinson on November 21 when an important Great War scene, shown right, was knocked down at £1.55m (£1.87m including premium).
Dawn, a 1914 picture of French soldiers marching rhythmically to the front in Flanders on an autumnal morning, was an early example of the artist’s trademark Vorticist style. It featured in Nevinson’s breakthrough solo show at the Leicester Galleries in 1916.
Consigned from a private source, it was offered in the Modern & Post-War British Art sale with an estimate of £700,000-1m.