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Lot Essay
Inventory:
The way to the Predil Pass; Venice preparing for the eventuality; The 'Eye' of the Position; A convoy of munitions; Taking no chances; Comrades all; Driving back the Austrians in the Trentino; War in the Italian Lakes; Marksmen midst the peaks; En route for the frontier; The fight for the village Asiago; The capture of the Costello di Spessa at Caprivi; The return of the heroes of Monte Nero with their captives (plus copy of); The Light Cavalry Brigade crossing the River Pique; A match of bowls under fire; Italy's watchdogs; Podgora; The Price of Victory; The fight for the Passes; Vipulzano (3); The fighting round Potabba; Like Wild Beasts (plus copy of); The Austrian defeat at Trentino; Driving back the Austrians in the Dolomite Alps; Paluzza, woman carrying heavy loads; The Crossing of the Isonzo; Surrender at Trentino; A sudden alert; The Italian advance in the Austrian Tyrol; and The fighting round Montecrace
Julius Mendes Price was born in London and later educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He led an adventurous life, serving as a Trooper in Methuen's Horse for journalistic purposes in the Bechuanaland campaign in South Africa in 1884-5. He was present on an expedition to open up a route to the interior of Siberia, also visiting Mongolia, the Gobi Desert and northern China in 1890-1. Price travelled to the goldfields of Australia in 1895, was with the Greek Army during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, and went on another expedition, this time in north western Canada in 1898. He was with the Russian Army in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, acting in a dual capacity as illustrator/correspondent with the Illustrated London News and war correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. During the First World War he witnessed activities on the Western Front in the early months before being assigned to the Italian Front from 1915. Price later spent time with the British Army of Occupation in Germany in 1919. He also published several books throughout his life relating to these varied experiences, including Six Months on the Italian Front, 1917.
A selection of similar drawings by Price also depicting the Italian front during the First World War, are held in the collection of The Imperial War Museum, under the title 'North-East Italian Front and the Vosges, 1914-1918', (IWM ARt 5233 a-i.)
Christie's would like to thank Matt Brosnan, Curator at the Imperial War Museum for his assistance in compiling this catalogue note.
The way to the Predil Pass; Venice preparing for the eventuality; The 'Eye' of the Position; A convoy of munitions; Taking no chances; Comrades all; Driving back the Austrians in the Trentino; War in the Italian Lakes; Marksmen midst the peaks; En route for the frontier; The fight for the village Asiago; The capture of the Costello di Spessa at Caprivi; The return of the heroes of Monte Nero with their captives (plus copy of); The Light Cavalry Brigade crossing the River Pique; A match of bowls under fire; Italy's watchdogs; Podgora; The Price of Victory; The fight for the Passes; Vipulzano (3); The fighting round Potabba; Like Wild Beasts (plus copy of); The Austrian defeat at Trentino; Driving back the Austrians in the Dolomite Alps; Paluzza, woman carrying heavy loads; The Crossing of the Isonzo; Surrender at Trentino; A sudden alert; The Italian advance in the Austrian Tyrol; and The fighting round Montecrace
Julius Mendes Price was born in London and later educated at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He led an adventurous life, serving as a Trooper in Methuen's Horse for journalistic purposes in the Bechuanaland campaign in South Africa in 1884-5. He was present on an expedition to open up a route to the interior of Siberia, also visiting Mongolia, the Gobi Desert and northern China in 1890-1. Price travelled to the goldfields of Australia in 1895, was with the Greek Army during the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, and went on another expedition, this time in north western Canada in 1898. He was with the Russian Army in Manchuria during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, acting in a dual capacity as illustrator/correspondent with the Illustrated London News and war correspondent of The Daily Telegraph. During the First World War he witnessed activities on the Western Front in the early months before being assigned to the Italian Front from 1915. Price later spent time with the British Army of Occupation in Germany in 1919. He also published several books throughout his life relating to these varied experiences, including Six Months on the Italian Front, 1917.
A selection of similar drawings by Price also depicting the Italian front during the First World War, are held in the collection of The Imperial War Museum, under the title 'North-East Italian Front and the Vosges, 1914-1918', (IWM ARt 5233 a-i.)
Christie's would like to thank Matt Brosnan, Curator at the Imperial War Museum for his assistance in compiling this catalogue note.