"Hello, Ike! Awfully glad to see you!" [Field Marshal Lord Montgomery has gone on a visit to America]

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image: President Eisenhower seated at a desk and looking through a newspaper headlined '"WHAT DO SOLDIERS KNOW ABOUT GOVERNMENT- NOTHING." - FIELD MARSHAL MONTGOMERY LAST WEEK'. Another newspaper lies on the desktop, headlined '"WESTERN LEADERSHIP IS NON- EXISTENT" - MONTY ON TUESDAY'. He is greeted by Montgomery who enters the room from the left, his right hand raised and his left hand clutching a book entitled 'COLLECTED POLITICAL SPEECHES'. He is wearing his signature beret and Field-Marshal uniform.

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signed & date stamped

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Category

Art

Creator

Weisz, Victor

Production date

1962

Materials

Support: board

medium: Pencil

medium: ink

medium: wash

Dimensions

Support: Height 401 mm, Width 443 mm

Catalogue number

Art.IWM ART 16608

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