Lot 134
Frank Griggs (Newmarket photographer) DERBY WINNERS 1934 TO 1939 (A SERIES OF SIX) hand painted over...
Frank Griggs (Newmarket photographer) DERBY WINNERS 1934 TO 1939 (A SERIES OF SIX) hand painted over a photographic base, uniformly mounted, framed & glazed, titled on the paper covered backboards, the 1934 & 1935 examples 15 by 25.5cm., the others 17.5 by 20cm., 7 by 8in. From 1936 the series becomes a formal portrait of the winning horse and jockey. The first two issues of 1934 & 1935 are more complicated compositions, being scenes of the finish and a pre-race paddock scene respectively. The series features Windsor Lad, Bahram, Mahmoud, Midday, Bois Roussel & Blue Peter.