Large watercolour still life of Fruit and Tomatoes by well listed artist Robert Louis Banks 1911-2000

Artist - Robert Louis BANKS 1911 – 2000

Title - Senior Calcsims Store Tomatoes (1959)

Medium - Watercolour on Board

Size - 56 x74 cm Mount

Description

A rare original large size watercolour by the very well listed artist Robert Louis Banks. This artists work seldom comes on the market. This is in very original condition, signed and dated at bottom left 9th Sept(19)59 No65 and with the original artists label on the reverse.
£340

Robert Louis BANKS

Cheltenham 1911 - London 2000

Biography
An architect and artist, Robert Banks studied at the Architectural Association between 1928 and 1933. Following military service in the Second World War, during which he was awarded the Military Cross, Banks worked as a town planner until the 1950s, when he began to devote himself to painting. A fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, he exhibited his work at the Trafford Gallery and the Alwin Gallery in London. He travelled extensively around Italy, painting views in Rome, Venice, Lecce, Naples, Urbino and elsewhere, and also visited Greece and Japan.