Another work by CRW Nevinson (1889-1946) in the form of an aerial wartime print was offered in Gorringe’s (23% buyer’s premium) June 27 sale.
Aerial view (from a Paris Plane), a signed 17 x 20in (43 x 51cm) lithograph from an edition of 25, shows swathes of land seen through the struts of an aircraft’s wing. The view stems from an oil by Nevinson, which in turn was inspired by a set of photographs printed in The War Illustrated in August 1915, which were taken from the air of a Turkish town on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
The title derived from Archibald Paris (1891-1937), the Royal Naval Division’s general officer who was commanding the Dardanelles campaign. His ‘Paris Planes’ were flown by a select group of allied pilots above the peninsula.