Georges
Leroux
was born in
France in 1877. On the outbreak of the First World
War he joined the French Army and
served on the Western Front in France
and Belgium. He later recalled how on one reconnaissance mission he
saw "a group of French soldiers taking shelter in a great shell-hole
full of water". That evening he made sketches of what he had
seen and later painted L'Enfer (Hell).
One critic remarked that the Leroux had "produced a work which
attempts to represent as accurately as possible the unrepresentable
reality of war".
George Leroux, Hell (1917)
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