Lot 2000
‡ROBERT SARGENT AUSTIN, RA, PPRWS (1895-1973)
BOMB TROLLEY, 1944
Signed and dated, pencil
57.5 x 45.5cm.
Provenance: The family of the artist
Exhibited: London, Morley College, War Pictures by British Artists, October-November 2016, n.41
Literature: Sacha Llewellyn & Paul Liss (Ed.), catalogue for the above, July 2016, p.80, no.41
* Austin made drawings of Woolwich Arsenal, fighter pilots and nurses at work during the war and also designed posters for the London Underground. A bomb trolley was pulled behind a tractor from the bomb dump to the aircraft, prior to loading.`
