Inscribed and dated l.r.: The “Old Soldier” – under the mosquito net – Billets Maddaloni/ Dec 44

Pen and black ink, 23 by 17 cm (9 by 6 ¾ ins)

Clark’s unit took over a large house in Maddaloni, just in-land from Naples in the Winter of 1944 and “converted the cellar into the mess, painting bold half-timbering on the walls in an attempt at a recreation of rural England”. (Tim Wilcox, pamphlet for Art at the Front, World War II Paintings by George Hooper and Norman Clark, Hove Museum & Art Gallery, May-June 1995)