Scottish Art
Scottish Art
JOHN BELLANY, R.A. | CHINATOWN
Auction Closed
September 18, 02:04 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
JOHN BELLANY, R.A.
1942-2013
CHINATOWN
signed u.l.: Bellany
oil on canvas
152.5 by 122cm., 60 by 48in.
Painted in 1986.
Odette Gilbert Gallery, London;
Christie's, London, 11 June 1992, lot 66, where purchased by the present owner
J. McEwen, John Bellany, Edinburgh, 1994, p.112
The present work is an almost identical composition to a painting by Bellany that was used for a poster advertising Chinatown via Leicester Square Tube and commissioned by Transport for London.