"Unscheduled Arrival"
Sheet Size: h" x w" • © 1998
Print Editions
400 Limited Edition
With THREE co-signatures.
$135 (sold out)
50 Artist's Proofs
With THREE co-signatures.
$160 (sold out)
30 Giclée on Canvas
Re-issue, signed and numbered by the artist only.
36" wide.
$895
12 Publisher's Proofs
Signed by the artist only.
$250
20 Printer's Proofs
Signed by the artist only.
DOUBLE REMARQUED.
$750
Signatures
Signed by three Mosquito pilots:
- F/O Bob Boyden, DFC
- Bar Wing Commander Jack Meadows, DFC, AFC, A.E.
- F/Lt Marie Wright
UNSCHEDULED ARRIVAL at about the halfway mark. Still to go in are the human figures and aircraft. As you can see, the signal box is only roughed in at this stage. The painting took about six weeks to produce.
The Story
It was the night of August 25, 1944. 627 Squadron Mosquito pilot Bob Boyden and his navigator Ralph Fenwick had just marked the marshalling yards for an incoming Lancaster raid at Darmstadt, Germany. Bob was down on the deck with throttles wide open, heading home, when he chanced upon a railway station at Kaiserslautern. The Germans didn't have time to react, and still had their lights turned on. The intruder had gone as quickly as it had appeared. A fleeting, dramatic moment in the titanic struggle of war.
