May 05, 2011 - Sale 2246

Sale 2246 - Lot 125

Price Realized: $ 600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ABRAM GAMES (1914-1996) BLOOD DONORS / ARE NEEDED URGENTLY TO SAVE LIVES. 1942.
29 1/4x19 1/4 inches, 74 1/2x49 cm. Lowe & Brydone Printers Ltd., London.
Condition B+: restored loss in right margin affecting text; vertical and horizontal folds.
Largely self-taught, Games opened his studio in 1936 and, before the war, was already designing posters for major clients such as Shell, The London Transport and The National Post-Office. In 1942, during the war, he was appointed the official war poster designer, in which capacity he created more than 100 posters, and became the key person for British war communication. Games p. 58.