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Robert Taylor - Air Combat Paintings Volume VI with the print Normandy Nemesis
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Author: Robert Taylor
Edition: 600 - RAF and Commonwealth Edition
Subject: MK IX Spitfires of 144 Canadian Wing.
New Copy
Book size: 14.5 x 11.5 inches
Print size: 27 x 20 inches
Voucher value: £20
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Publisher: Military Gallery
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A deluxe copy of the book 'Robert Taylor - Air Combat Paintings Volume VI' with a matching-numbered copy of the Limited Edition print Normandy Nemesis.
Robert Taylor - Air Combat Paintings Volume VI:
Another fine addition to the growing series of books featuring the work of the world’s leading aviation artist, Robert Taylor. A showcase for paintings produced mainly between 2005 and 2009, this volume also contains a great many pencil drawings. The colour plates are supplemented with many additional plates showing detail areas of the paintings. The quality and accuracy of detail in Robert’s work makes this another essential must-have volume for his collectors around the world.
The book is issued with a blue cloth slip case with the artist’s signature gold blocked on the front cover. The book is signed and numbered inside by the artist.
Publisher's narrative for the print Normandy Nemesis:
When Johnnie Johnson led the Mk IX Spitfires of his 144 Canadian Wing to temporary airstrip B.3 near the village of St Croix sur Mer, a few miles inland from the Normandy beach head, they were making history. As they landed on the hastily constructed Summerfield mesh tracking runway on D-Day plus 9, they became the first Allied air force unit to be based in former occupied Europe, and the first to operate in France after D-Day. Now they could operate over northern France with impunity to sweep the skies clear over the advancing Allied armies, nowhere was safe for the reeling Luftwaffe.
Robert Taylor artfully portrays the Mk IX Spitfires of 443 Squadron RCAF, based at St Croix sur Mer, as they tangle with a group of Fw190s whom they had encountered on a fighter sweep near Alenyon, in southern Normandy on 23 June 1944. During the melee that followed, their Squadron Leader, Wally McLeod, quickly destroyed two Fw190s, whilst another Fw190 was badly damaged.
Each copy of Robert Taylor's Limited Edition, Normandy Nemesis is individually signed and numbered by the artist and:
Major Hans-Ekkehard Bob
Lieutenant General Avi.Baron Mike Donnet.
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£145.00
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