Lot 117: Brian Julian Stonehouse, M.B.E. (1918-1998) Dachau gas chambers-the day after liberation

Dachau gas chambers-the day after liberation
signed and inscribed 'B J Stonehouse/ Dachau 4t', charcoal
29 x 32cm (11 7/16 x 12 5/8in).

In a personal diary started in Dachau on Liberation day Brian Stonehouse described the day this sketch was made: 'Monday Evening, April 30, 1945 - I visited and made sketches of piles of corpses at the Krematorium. Not much time to sketch, as the place had been mined by the SS before they left, and the building was expected to blow up at any minute.'

The sketches he made in Dachau were presented to the Imperial War Museum, this is believed to be the last known concentration camp picture by Brian Stonehouse still in private hands.