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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
TERENCE CUNEO (1907-1996)
ON EARLY SHIFT / BRITISH RAILWAYS. 1948.
39 3/4x50 inches, 101x127 cm. Waterlow and Sons, Ltd., London. Condition B / B-: extensive replaced losses, overpainting and repaired tears in margin and image and along vertical and horizontal folds; overpainting around text.
Born into a family of artists, Cuneo was a painter and illustrator who excelled at locomotive images and military themes. He served as the official artist for Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953. Many of his paintings were turned into posters for the British Railway, each of which is distinguished by the great attention he paid to the technical details. Here, "we are standing in a Greenwood signal box near new Barnet as A4 Wild Swan thunders towards us on a main line express" (Furness Vol. 4, p. 139). Furness Vol. 4, p. 139.
