Lot 119: Victor Noble Rainbird, Abbeville Street Market, Watercolour

A watercolour painting on textured paper depicting a street market scene in Abbeville, France. The composition features tall timber-framed medieval buildings above a square populated with figures and stalls, executed in a muted palette with characteristic blue washes. The work is signed in dark ink at the lower left Victor Noble Rainbird/ and bears a smudged dark ink inscription to the lower right reading ABBEVILLE. The painting is presented in a glazed gilt wood frame with a cream mount decorated with multiple gold-tone wash lines. The reverse features a handwritten note in dark ink to the upper edge of the tape reading Town? ABBEVILLE 1932. The hardboard backing is marked with a black ink stamp reading GOLDEN 0402 MADE IN SWEDEN.

Picture size: 34 cm x 24 cm
Frame size: 43 cm x 53 cm.