Victory in Europe

On 8 May 1945, the guns across Europe finally fell silent. Victory in Europe Day marked the end of a six-year conflict that had transformed nations, shattered lives, and redefined the role of art in wartime Britain. In this online exhibition, Liss Llewellyn commemorates VE Day through the eyes of five remarkable British artists—Alan Sorrell, Laura Knight, Edward Halliday, Evelyn Dunbar, and Barnett Freedman—each of whom captured the experience of war in profoundly different yet deeply human ways.

Works FEATURED in this Exhibition

Edward Halliday (1902 - 1984)
Mr. Halliday – Self Portrait, 1945
Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)
A Cavern in the Clouds, 1944
Laura Knight (1877 - 1970)
Land Army Girl Ploughing, 1942
Evan Charlton (1904 - 1984)
Canal Girls, 1944
SKU: 11273
WWII: Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Gliders at Pegasus Bridge, July 1944
£1,950
SKU: 11132
Phyllis Ginger (1907 - 2005)
Design for a Wedgwood Plate, circa 1944
£1,600
SKU: 11103
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Pencil sketch for Portrait of an Airwoman, 1944
£1,500
SKU: 11071
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study of Woman In Uniform 3
£1,500
SKU: 11057
Evelyn Dunbar (1906 - 1960)
Study of a WAAF at RAF Gravesend, 1944
£1,500
Alfred Kingsley Lawrence (1893 - 1975)
Spitfire No. 303 (Kosckiuszko) Squadron RAF, Summer 1941
Douglas Percy Bliss (1900 - 1984)
Aerial View, circa 1940
SKU: 9562
Alfred Kingsley Lawrence (1893 - 1975)
Sergt. Pilot J.C. McWilliams, 1942
£3,750
SKU: 9217
Isobel Atterbury Heath (1908 - 1989)
A Royal Navy Mine Sweeper in Dry Dock, circa 1940
£5,000
SKU: 8994
Muirhead Bone (1876 - 1953)
Convoy, including a ship with dazzle camouflage
£1,000
SKU: 8990
Stephen Bone (1904 - 1958)
Sketch of the Normandy Landings
£800
SKU: 8567
Rudolf Sauter (1895 - 1977)
Spud piers with dazzle camouflage being prepared for the D-Day Normandy Landings
£2,950
SKU: 8562
Rudolf Sauter (1895 - 1977)
Bird’s-eye view over the Wing of an Aeroplane, circa 1945 (recto and verso)
£7,500
SKU: 8498
Charles Mahoney (1903 - 1968)
Gas Mask Drill, Ambleside, circa 1942
£1,400
SKU: 8366
Robert Austin (1895 - 1973)
Evening, 1940
£380
SKU: 7957
Percy Horton (1897 - 1970)
Study for Blind Workers in a Birmingham Factory, c.1942
£950
SKU: 7949
Blitz, 1944
£1,975
SKU: 7952
Barnett Freedman (1901 - 1958)
15-inch Gun Turret, HMS Repulse, 1941
£975
SKU: 7427
Henry Arthur Riley (1895 - 1966)
Me, 1940-42
£35,000
SKU: 7034
Eric Erskine Campbell Tufnell (1888 - 1978)
Sinking of “Scharnhorst” 26.12.1943
£1,575
SKU: 6074
Barbara Jones (1912 - 1978)
A Pile of captured German guns, aeroplanes and other detritus of war , circa 1972
£475
SKU: 5657
Muirhead Bone (1876 - 1953)
Cartoon for Winter Mine-Laying off Iceland, 1942
£1,750
SKU: 5350
Peter Humphrey (1913 - 2001)
Bomb damaged houses, Coventry, circa 1942
£6,750
SKU: 4725
Spitfire, in from Dieppe, Crash Landed 1942
£800
SKU: 4613
Rosemary Allan (1911 - 2008)
Making dresses for the Red Cross, c. 1944
£800
Rudolf Sauter (1895 - 1977)
The Sinister Insect: The Dragon Fly, circa 1940
SKU: 4406
Rudolf Sauter (1895 - 1977)
Study for The Phantom Eyre, circa 1940
£1,850
SKU: 3815
Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)
Study for Marching Gun Range and Rifle Range, RAF Station
£1,950
SKU: 3814
Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)
Study for Watch Office, RAF Station, circa 1944
£2,900
SKU: 3747
Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)
Study for An Aerial View of a Wartime Airfield, circa 1942
£2,950
SKU: 3750
Alan Sorrell (1904 - 1974)
Sketch for An Aerial View of a Wartime Airfield, circa 1944
£1,200