May 05, 2011 - Sale 2246

Sale 2246 - Lot 115

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LAURENCE BRADSHAW (1899-1978) KING'S CROSS FOR SCOTLAND. Circa 1930.
39 1/2x25 inches, 100 1/2x63 1/2 cm. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, Ltd. Lith, London.
Condition B+: creases and restoration in margins and corners; abrasions in image.
Bradshaw was a versatile artist who used his varying skills to promulgate socialism. He began as an assistant to Frank Brangwyn, and branched off on his own between the wars. His most prominent commission was designing the Karl Marx memorial at Highgate Cemetery. In this atypical, yet immensely captivating neo-cubist image he uses strokes of vivid colors to catch the attention of passersby. Railway p. 142.