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Title
Japanese soldiers killed D-day
1945
Artist
Frank Hodgkinson
Australia
28 Apr 1919 - 20 Oct 2001
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
Details
Date
1945
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
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Japanese soldiers killed D-day
Referenced in 1 publication
Bibliography
Jill Sykes, Look, 'The quick and the dead', pg. 46, Sydney, Jun 2006, 46 (colour illus.).