THE Daily Mail reports on the sale at an auction of a rare album of comic First World War postcards by 'saucy seaside' artist Donald McGill.

They say that the Inter-Art Company's book, printed in 1917, shows hundreds of tongue-in-cheek war illustrations and was bought by James Bissell-Thomas, owner of the Donald McGill Postcard Museum in Ryde, Isle of Wight.

He said: “It's so exciting to have found this album at auction. I knew the book existed, but I thought that over the years it may have been broken up and the postcards sold off individually.”

McGill was famous for his comic seaside cards but during the war he also produced 1,500 different designs of patriotic postcards. It seems that the endangered red Squirrel species have been successfully returned to the Highlands area of north-west Scotland.

A painting which was sold for £300 in 1964 is now set to fetch up to £1m when it is auctioned by Sotheby's in London.

The Guardian reports that When A Dawn, a painting by CRW Nevinson of haggard French troops marching to the front in 1914, is now regarded as one of the English artist’s finest works, and as one of the great paintings of the first world war.

“I hesitate to say a career-best, because it makes the rest of my career seem rather boring, but I never expect to handle a better painting by Nevinson,” said Simon Hucker, an expert at Sotheby’s on 20th century British art. “It is a great painting, every inch of the canvas fully resolved, down to the way the men break down at the very back of the picture into mere geometric forms.”

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