Nov 14, 2019 - Sale 2524

Sale 2524 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FRANK NEWBOULD (1887-1951) BADEN - BADEN / VIA HARWICH TO THE BLACK FOREST. Circa 1930.
40x24 3/4 inches, 101 1/2x63 cm. Eyre & Spottiswoode Ltd, London.
Condition A-: minor creases and abrasions in margins and image; small loss in lower left corner.
Frank Newbould did extensive work for the London & North Eastern Railway, and he also worked for the Great Western Railway, The Orient Line and the Belgian Railways. In 1926, he was one of five artists contracted to work exclusively for the LNER; the others were Tom Purvis, Austin Cooper, Frank Mason and Fred Taylor. The contract lasted for three years. Adept at depicting both architecture and people, Newbould composed his colorful posters with a strong graphic eye. Not in Furness vol. 8.