£30,000 - £40,000
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Office of Sir Reginald Blomfield RA (1856-1942) - A Design for the Completion of Piccadilly Circus, London by Cyril Arthur Farey (1888-1954), signed and dated CYRIL A . FAREY/DEL. 1936, artist's typewritten label and Royal Academy exhibition labels on the backboard, pen, ink and watercolour, 59 x 134cm
Provenance: Sir Reginald Blomfield RA (1856-1942); thence by descent to the present vendor.
Exhibited: Royal Academy, Exhibition of British Architecture, 1937
The colouring in fine, fresh condition. The sky with a handful of minor spots, lost in the hang. A similar number of somewhat more pronounced portions above the rooftops. A 15cm vertical line of fine intermittent scuffing in the left foreground.
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