SPITFIRE modelled by Eileen Soper from the Wartime Series, as two smiling boys gazing towards the sky, the elder wearing a chequered shirt with rolled-up sleeves, a shaded mauve-grey waistcoat, patched pale-brown trousers and black boots, waving his blue cap, the younger wearing a red jersey, pale-grey trousers and pale-brown shoes, seated on a large mottled pink, grey and pale-brown rock and shaped base, puce printed marks and script, model number 3352, date code for 1941
Details
SPITFIRE modelled by Eileen Soper from the Wartime Series, as two smiling boys gazing towards the sky, the elder wearing a chequered shirt with rolled-up sleeves, a shaded mauve-grey waistcoat, patched pale-brown trousers and black boots, waving his blue cap, the younger wearing a red jersey, pale-grey trousers and pale-brown shoes, seated on a large mottled pink, grey and pale-brown rock and shaped base, puce printed marks and script, model number 3352, date code for 1941
6½in. (16.5cm.) high
Provenance
Eileen Soper, sale Phillips Knowle, 27 November 1990, lot 276