“St. Giles Cripplegate / Sept 1944”: watercolor on paper, signed lower right, titled lower left

by John Milton, H. P Trier

$1,750 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

1 vols. Image 10-3/4 x 13-1/2 inches, handsomely matted and framed to 19 x 22 inches overall. Fine condition. Betjeman, Churches of the City of London, p. 16. Item #58848 A superb rendering of the surviving church tower, surrounded by the wreckage of blitz-torn London's East End. Trier did several such highly skillful studies, on the spot and in pencil, but this is the first watercolor we have seen. A handsome, evocative work.The

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