Nov 14, 2019 - Sale 2524

Sale 2524 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
GYRTH RUSSELL (1892-1970) GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY / STRATFORD - UPON - AVON. Circa 1930.
39 1/4x49 1/4 inches, 99 3/4x125 cm. McCorquodale & Co., London.
Condition B: small losses, replaced losses and restoration in margins; creases and speckling in image; restored punch holes in corners.
Canadian-born Russell, who was primarily a painter and etcher, designed about a dozen posters for the Great Western Railway. During World War I, he served as an official war artist for the Canadian army.