Oct 25, 2018 - Sale 2490

Sale 2490 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 910
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
FRED TAYLOR (1875-1963) VISIT INDIA / LAND OF SUNSHINE & COLOUR. Circa 1930.
39 3/4x50 inches, 101x127 cm. Adams Bros & Shardlow Ltd., London.
Condition B-: large replaced losses and overpainting in margins and image; entirely replaced and overpainted margins; repaired tears, restored losses, creases and restoration in image.
The hustle and bustle of daily life along the Ganges River, including both architectural marvels and a throng of people, are depicted in a cut-out style. Much like the work of Tom Purvis, who also designed posters for travel to India, Taylor here employs expanses of color to delineate details.