Oct 18, 2013 - Sale 2326

Sale 2326 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000
TERENCE CUNEO (1907-1996) TRACK LAYING BY NIGHT / BRITISH RAILWAYS. Circa 1955.
39 3/4x50 inches, 101x127 cm. Waterlow & Sons Limited, London & Dunstable.
Condition B: sharp crease through lower left corner; tear through right margin into image; tears and minor losses at edges; abrasions in image. Paper.
Born into a family of artists, Cuneo was a masterful painter of 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. Art For All p. 150, Le Train p. 75.