Nov 11, 2011 - Sale 2261

Sale 2261 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
WALTER GROTH (DATES UNKNOWN) LONDON - REISEN. Circa 1937.
47x33 inches, 119 1/2x84 cm. C. G. Roder, Leipzig.
Condition B+: wrinkles and sharp creases in corners; minor restoration along lower left margin; repaired tear through top margin. Japan.
To promote their sailings to London, the German shipping company, Hamburg-Sud, uses a view of Parliament from Westminster Bridge. Although Big Ben, London's most famous landmark, is conspicuously absent from view, the artist does include one of the gothic lamp posts on the bridge which were designed by August Pugin, the same architect who designed the Houses of Parliament.