Richard Taylor’s hauntingly beautiful new painting ‘Action
This Day’ depicts a scene on a cold winter’s morning, as dawn
breaks over RAF Lissett, revealing that last night’s biting wind
has once again brought a covering of snow to the airfield. But, with conditions
forecast to improve, tonight’s operation to bomb industrial targets
in Germany is set to proceed, and ground crew start to prepare Halifax
Mk3 LV907 ‘F-Freddy’, simply known as ‘Friday 13th’,
for action.
This iconic aircraft flew an impressive total of 128 operational sorties
with 158 Squadron between March 1944 and April 1945, and with Richard
Taylor’s prints signed by up to eight former members of 158 Squadron,
this evocative and eye-catching masterpiece is a collectors’ gem.
THE LIMITED EDITION
Joining artist Richard Taylor, each print in this limited edition has
been individually signed in pencil by THREE veterans
who flew with the Halifaxes of 158 Squadron.
Pilot Officer MAURICE SPIVEY DFM
Wireless Operator/Air Gunner 158 Squadron
Warrant Officer REX STATHAM
Flight Engineer 158 Squadron
Flight Lieutenant FRED TUNSTALL DFC
Rear Gunner 158 Squadron
350 Signed & Numbered - £110 inc vat
(£93.62+vat)
THE COLLECTORS’ EDITION & REMARQUE EDITIONS
Together with the two Remarque Editions, the EIGHT signature Collectors’
Edition is additionally signed by the following 158 Squadron veterans:
Flight Lieutenant ‘TOMMY’ COLES DFC
Pilot 158 Squadron
Warrant Officer HARRY IRONS DFC
Rear Gunner 9, 462, 466 & 158 Squadrons
Flight Lieutenant JOE PETRIE ANDREWS DFC DFM
Pilot 158 & 35 Squadron
Warrant Officer DENNIS SLACK
Bomb Aimer 158 Squadron. POW Stalag Luft IVb
Flight Lieutenant ALAN BRYETT
Bomb Aimer 158 Squadron. POW Stalag Luft III
70 Collectors Proofs - £150inc vat (£127.66+vat)
25 Artist Proofs - £175 inc vat (£148.94+vat)
THE REMARQUES
Richard Taylor’s beautiful, highly detailed pencil remarques are
now some of the most collectible items in the world of aviation art, and
for this publication there will be a choice of two editions, both featuring
the outstanding Handley Page Halifax. The first will each have a single
ORIGINAL pencil drawing gracefully hand crafted by the artist, and the
second, de-luxe edition, will be issued as an outstanding DOUBLE SIZE
Remarque drawing, measuring approximately 10? wide!
25 Remarques - £265inc vat (£225.54+vat)
10 Double Remarques - £ 445inc vat (£378.73+vat)
THE RAF BOMBER COMMAND TRIBUTE EDITION (subject
to availability)
Richard's pencil work is nothing short of superb and widely regarded as
amongst the best in the industry. These magnificent Tribute Proofs, created
with a unique and highly-collectible original pencil drawing by Richard
Taylor, are issued to include the matted signatures of no less than FIVE
of the Royal Air Force’s most eminent wartime leaders.
Air Vice-Marshal DON BENNETT CB CBE DSO FRAes
Group Captain LEONARD CHESHIRE VC OM DSO DFC
Air Chief Marshal Sir LEWIS HODGES KCB CBE DSO DFC
Group Captain J B ‘WILLIE’ TAIT DSO*** DFC* ADC
Air Chief Marshal Sir AUGUSTUS WALKER GCB CBE DSO DFC AFC
10 Matted RAF Bomber Command Tribute Proofs - £1095inc
vat (£931.92+vat)
This is undoubtedly one of Richards most exclusive and collectable editions
to date and we expect demand to be high so please contact us for availability.
Orders from outside the European Union
are free of vat
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RICHARD TAYLOR
Richard Taylor is a young talent not to be ignored. His abounding enthusiasm
for painting aircraft, and the distinctive natural flair of this young
professional artist is clearly demonstrated in this, his very first aviation
painting to be issued as a limited edition. In joining The Military Gallery
– the same international publishing house that has represented his
illustrious father over 30 years – Richard Taylor is set to carve
out an exciting career for himself: a career that the most discerning
collectors of the genre will no doubt wish to hold a stake in from the
very outset.
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