The Hunt in the Forest

There is nothing that needs to be said about this painting, other than it is my second-most favourite painting in the world, ever. One of the reasons I took a job and a flat in Oxford 10 years ago was so that I could see this at the Ashmolean whenever I wanted. Just one point though: click on the painting to see the enlargement and pay attention to the structure of the composition; now scroll down the page to the Menin Road and its plain to see from the rhythms and geometry that there's a good chance Paul Nash, with all his links to Oxfordshire, saw this painting, liked this painting and was heavily influenced by it.