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Totes Meer (Dead Sea)

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Oil on canvas (1940–1941) by Paul Nash. Tate Modern, London. Painted from RAF photographs of crashed German aircraft at the Cowley dump, Oxfordshire. Wreckage transformed into a nocturnal seascape.

Scholarly Significance

Canonical British WWII painting and most powerful Surrealist-inflected war image in British art.