Oct 26, 2017 - Sale 2459

Sale 2459 - Lot 191

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
TERENCE CUNEO (1907-1996) CLEAR ROAD AHEAD / BRITISH RAILWAY. 1949.
40x50 inches, 101 1/2x127 cm. Waterlow & Sons Ltd., London.
Condition B+: speckling in margins and text; restored losses, repaired tears, creases and overpainting in margins and image.
Born into a family of artists, Cuneo was a painter and illustrator who excelled at railroad images, locomotives 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 pays to the technical details.