Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 132
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(ENGLAND--1915.) The Passing Show. Poster, 29 1/2 x 19 inches; moderate wear. London, 30 October [1915]

Additional Details

Apparently an oversized printing of the cover for the popular illustrated weekly of the same name. Depicts Winston Churchill (then best known as architect of the bloody Gallipoli landing) as a painter whose "art is promising, but lacks something in execution."