Nov 13, 2006 - Sale 2093

Sale 2093 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
LEONARD RICHMOND (?-1965) CANADIAN PACIFIC. Circa 1930.
40x24 7/8 inches.
Condition B+: repaired tears in margins; creases in margins and images.
Richmond designed posters for the British railway companies, but he had an early acquaintance with Canada. During the First World War "He was commissioned by the Canadian government to sketch at the front in France and gather material for a large painting of Canadian soldiers constructing railways" (Railway p. 157).