One of the two dozen coloured litho plates produced by Eric Ravilious for High Street –£2050 at Hansons.
Brought into a free valuation day held at Bishop’s Cleve, near Cheltenham, a copy of Eric Ravilious’ High Street sold on March 27 at what would appear to be a record sum in a Derbyshire sale.
Offered by Hansons (20% buyer’s premium) and sold at £2050, this well-known work, in which Ravilious illustrated the text of architectural historian John M Richards, was first published in 1938. Its aim was to capture the life of the British ‘High Street’.