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Oil Painting Champion Racing Bird Pigeon Adolphus By Edward Henry Windred C1929

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1 Fine Sporting Ornithology British Work of Art Oil Painting Champion Racing Bird Pigeon Messr's Hopper & Drapers Adolphus By Edward Henry Windred C1929.
Title 'Messr's Hopper & Drapers Adolphus with painted written racing history along the bottom NURP29PDC 841. 1st Northallerton 203 Miles 145 yards. P& D.H.S 5th C.E.Fed-Yel-1033.1st Selby 162 Miles 327 yds. 4th Fed-Vel-1138, 1929.
Subject ornithology sporting animal bird portrait of a red checker racing pigeon named Aldolphus in side profile facing right. With beautiful plumage. The birds colour has a light red brown colour body with white wing & striped red bars, a darker grey head with white and black beak. With a green landscape view in the background, with a cloudy overcast sky with areas of lighter blue shining through.
A good size with the frame being 54.5 cm wide and 44 cm high.
Oil on Winsor & Newton canvas.
Set in a traditional oak wood frame which has been painted gilt.
Unsigned though the brushstrokes and hues are that of Edward Henry Windred.
By the known British artist Edward Henry Windred 1875 - 1953.
Edward Henry Windred's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging UP to 7,821 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2008 the record price for this artist at auction is 7,821 USD for Portrait of six racing pigeons, the property of W. Hurley Jnr, sold at Woolley & Wallis in 2020.
Windred was a Barber by trade, but he was also a "Pigeon Fancier" and raced his own pigeons. He also had a passion for painting, like had his father had before him and as a "Sunday Painter" he gradually established a sideline in painting images of victorious and champion birds for their proud owners whilst travelling around the racing pigeon meetings. Windred is reputed to have had a handful of stencils that depicted a range of generic pigeon profiles/silhouettes, the outlines of which he drew onto canvases which he had pre-painted with naive stylised landscapes.
He then carefully and accurately added the individual bird's markings and thus created his individual and idiosyncratic style depicting flat, two dimensional painted depictions of the birds with impeccably observed details of their unique markings. Windred is an iconic British Folk Artist and considered significant for his body of work. Indeed most Folk Art collections include works by E H Windred and it was represented at Tate Britain in their British Folk Art Exhibition in 2014.
Provenance from a British Fine art auction in the home counties label attached and title inscribed verso.
An exceptional sought after collectible artwork.
Such a delightful scene to the eye a great conversation piece.
Highly sought after due to the collectible nature of subject animal sporting matter such elaborate detail.
With hanging thread on the back ready for immediate home wall display.
Incredible conversation piece for your guests.
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Condition report.
Offered in fine used condition.
Front painting surface in acceptable overall order. Having some craquelure & various foxing stains and some minor paint loss in places. Wood frame which has general wear also overpainting, minor losses,chips commensurate with usage & age.
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Dimensions in centimetres of the frame approximate

High (44 cm)
Wide (54.5 cm)
Depth thickness of frame (3.5 cm)