?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
JOHN RATTENBURY SKEAPING (1901-1980)
THE WINNER . . . SHELL. 1952.
29 1/2x39 1/4 inches, 75x99 1/2 cm. Leonard Ripley & Co., London. Condition B+: expertly-repaired tears, replaced losses and restoration in margins.
Skeaping, who was elected to the Royal Academy in 1960, was a sculptor and equine painter; both talents are visible here in this graceful and energetic rendering of a race horse. This is his only known poster.
