Provenance: Formally in the Collection of Roy Cowan and Juliet Peter. Acquired by the present owner directly from that collection.

The Free French from Chad, together with the Long Range Desert Group, attacked and took Kufra. From Kufra the LRDG commanders would essentially serve as the military commanders of a region approximately the size of northern Europe, a region which had not seen rain in 70 years. This is an extremely rare field study painted whilst the artist was in Kufra 19 - 30 April, 1941