Nov 18, 2009 - Sale 2196

Sale 2196 - Lot 102

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
F. GREGORY BROWN (1887-1941) ST. ALBANS. 1916.
29 3/4x20 inches, 75 1/2x51 cm.
Condition B+: minor tears along left edge; creases in margins and image; pin-holes in corners. Paper.
Gregory Brown began working for the London Underground in 1916. His early work showed "a remarkable similarity of approach" to the designs of E. McKnight Kauffer. "Brown, three years older than Kauffer, began his working life apprenticed to an art metalworker, but abandoned this to become an illustrator. [Brown became] one of the major exponents of the brightly colored rural landscape . . . always using vivid and well-defined tones" (Underground p. 37).