Heavy Freight 67

细节

David Shepherd (B.1931)
Heavy Freight 67
signed and dated 'David Shepherd/95' (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 42in. (61 x 106.5cm.)

来源

Purchased directly from the artist by the present owner.

注意事项

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

In a letter to the present owner David Shepherd wrote "Of all the standard designs of steam locomotives following nationalisation, the Standard 9F 2-10-0 was the last and undoubtedly most successful to be built. However, they came too late in the rapidly approaching age of diesel and some 9F's were cut up for scrap after just five years.

My painting portrays a typical scene at the end of December in 1968, a 9F in appalling external condition at the end of her working life, hauling a mixed freight in an industrial setting.

I used No.92203, my own 9F which I purchased in 1967 when only eight years old, and which I subsequently named 'Black Prince'"