Joë BRIDGE (pseudonyme de Jean Barrez). "Military... Lot 12

Joë BRIDGE (pseudonyme de Jean Barrez). "Military prisoner at Alten Grabow camp. 1916" Watercolor, 28 x 20.5. Signed and dated and dedicated "to my excellent friend Moremans, with best wishes from Joe Bridge, in remembrance of a bunch of bad days at Alten-Grabow, 1916" upper right. Under glass and passe-partout. Gilded frame with turquoise field. Caricature of Victor Moremans, dressed in disparate pieces of uniform, by his fellow captive, cartoonist Joë Bridge (born Jean Barrez in New York in 1886 and died in Paris in 1967; variety artist, then poster artist, publicist, caricaturist... but also fencing champion). Provenance: Victor Moremans Collection.