The English artist and poster designer Alfred Thomson (1894-1979) painted this eye-catching depiction of the famous penguin pool at London Zoo (right).
The 3ft x 2ft 4in (91 x 71cm) oil on canvas, believed to be an unpublished poster design, features the curving ramps of the Berthold Lubetkin-designed pool, an icon of British Modernist architecture that housed the zoo’s penguins from the early 1930s until 2004. In original uncleaned condition, the work sold to a private buyer for £3300.